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Race, War, and Winslow Homer
The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
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Claudia Roth Pierpont
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The New Yorker
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April 7, 2022
The Melville of American Painting
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
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Susan Tallman
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The Atlantic
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April 6, 2022
The Caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate: White Supremacist Violence in Pen and Pixels
Absent social media, the artists of the past shaped public knowledge of historical events through illustrations.
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Peter H. Wood
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Harlin J. Gradinn
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Tropics of Meta
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January 20, 2021
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A Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.
by
Kathryn Ostrofsky
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September 7, 2022
The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur
The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
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John Swansburg
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Slate
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March 26, 2013