Civil War Lesson Plans. Exhibitions: The Civil War and American Art / American Art. November 16, 2012 – April 28, 2013 Explore View slide show and comments Buy the book Watch the video trailer Listen to the podcast with commentary by exhibition curator Eleanor Harvey Check out the exhibition galleries on Flickr See selected artworks in historical context with our timeline Attention Educators! Download our Teacher Guide Watch webcast presentations from the symposium Effects of the Civil War on American Art Attend exhibition-related public programs Go behind-the-scenes with the museum's blog, Eye Level Who is talking about the exhibition? See if the exhibition is visiting your hometown Eastman Johnson, The Girl I Left Behind Me, ca. 1872, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson The Civil War and American Art examines how America’s artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator, organized the exhibition. Civil War | American Art. 1851Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin serialized.September 1851Christiana Riot1852Frederick Edwin Church paints The Natural Bridge, VirginiaMarch 1852Uncle Tom's Cabin published as a book.1853 Robert Duncanson paints Uncle Tom and Little Eva. May 1854The Kansas-Nebraska Act permits each newly-admitted state to determine whether slavery is legal. May 24–25 1856John Brown leads the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas.1857 Eastman Johnson paintsThe Old Mount Vernon. March 6, 1857The Dred Scott ruling declares slaves to be property, not citizens.1859John Kensett paints Sunrise among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport.
April 1859 Eastman Johnson exhibits Negro Life at the South. Spring 1860 Martin Johnson Heade exhibits Approaching Thunder Storm. Frederic Edwin Church paints Meteor of 1860. January 9, 1861Mississippi secedes. March 1861 Sanford Robinson Gifford exhibits Twilight in the Catskills. Frederic Edwin Church exhibits The Icebergs. July 1861 Winslow Homer paints Sharpshooter. Wretched woman! Henry O. Nightingale diaries MSS.002. Description Henry O. Nightingale (1844-1919) and his family emigrated from Hawkhurst, County Kent, England, to the United States in 1849.
He, his parents, and his younger brother arrived in New York from London aboard the Margaret Evans on June 30 when Henry was 5 years old. The family settled in Rochester, New York. Background Henry Oliver Nightingale was born in Hawkhurst, County Kent, England on June 6, 1844. A House Divided. Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction.
Civil War Lesson Plans: Middle School. Mission US | THIRTEEN. ISTE12. Teaching the Civil War with Technology. Ideas for teaching the Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg - The United States Army. Hannah Valentine & Lethe Jackson Slave Letters - Duke Special Collections Library. Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, 1837-1838 From the Campbell Family Papers An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library at Duke University and Original documents - scanned images and transcriptions About Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson. Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson were house slaves at Montcalm, the family home of David and Mary Campbell, located in Abingdon, Virginia.
Hannah Valentine (1794-1860) came to the Campbell family in 1811 when she was 17 years old. Hannah had several children, many of which are mentioned in her letters: Richard b. 1811 Eliza b. 1816, d. 1848, had several children including a daughter in 1840 David Bird b.1825, who became a finished dining room servant and was eventually freed and left a sizable inheritance Jane and Mary (twins) b. 1832; Mary d. 1833 of scarlet fever Mary b. 1835 Page was sold because of his insubordination in the 1850s and eventually killed near Abingdon in 1861 About the collection at Duke. Overview - The 54th Massachusetts Infantry attacking Fort Wagner Painting by Rick Reeves On June 16, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln made one of his rare wartime departures from Washington. He spoke in Philadelphia at a fund-raising fair for the United States Sanitary Commission, a national soldiers' aid society. The preceding six weeks had seen the bloodiest fighting in the Civil War so far, at the carnage-strewn Virginia battlefields of The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.
"War, at the best, is terrible," Lincoln told the crowd, "and this war of ours, in its magnitude and duration, is one of the most terrible. . . . This grim determination to fight on to victory despite the cost characterized Lincoln's leadership in the war. Many people in both North and South sometimes faltered in the face of the war's terrible cost in lives and resources. Both sides were willing to sustain such punishment and keep fighting because the stakes were so great: nationality and freedom.