This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

As Israel presses a deadly offensive against armed group Hezbollah in his home country, Lebanese artist Charbel Samuel Aoun ...

Amid the ongoing calamity of war in Lebanon, the country’s cultural scene is determined to work against the odds to keep its ...

Among the many things about America that the American Civil War changed was its art. Painting and sculpture simply couldn’t be the same.

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

A tender yearning permeates the traveling career survey of Bronx-born Whitfield Lovell, who forges Black histories from aged ...

Shiloh. Antietam. Vicksburg. The Civil War claimed over 750,000 soldiers. It remains by far the deadliest war in American history. “A Harvest of Death,” by Timothy H. O’Sullivan. 1863. Smithsonian ...

A team of archaeologists-turned-spies (Amr Al Azm, Adnan Almohamad and Katie Paul) brave Syria’s civil war and infiltrate the ...

The art museums at University of Wyoming and Colorado State University are betting on the outcome of Friday’s Border War ...

Opponents of statue removal claimed we were erasing the nation’s history when, in fact, we were acknowledging it — slavery and the bitter division that led to the secession of 11 Southern states — and ...

Fast-consolidating industry lore, compounded by Toronto dealing – or lack of it – has it that non-English-language dramas don ...

A team of archaeologists-turned-spies (Amr Al Azm, Adnan Almohamad and Katie Paul) brave Syria's civil war and infiltrate the ...