Seeing the American Civil War: How Visual Culture Recorded, Interpreted, and Remembered the Conflict

Led by Joshua Brown

The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars and their students in many disciplines . American studies, history, art history, and literature. Sessions at this summer seminar, led by Professor Joshua Brown, executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, will focus on the range of visual media that represented people, events, places, and policies during the Civil War and the ways photographs, paintings, news illustrations, prints, cartoons, maps, textiles, and monuments affected perception and opinion during and after the conflict. Participants will have access to the Society's varied collections of visual and printed materials to pursue their own interests.