At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... created some of his most celebrated paintings from sketches he made as an illustrator at the front. During the Peninsular ...

“The Battle of Nashville” is one of six Civil War paintings that hang in the Governor’s reception room at the Capitol. Pease, who has studied the Capitol’s art for decades, counts “The B ...

a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish prisoners; the ominous day-by-day countdown to the opening shots of the Civil War ...