Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath

FAIN: EH-288037-22

CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center (New York, NY 10016-4309)
Donna Thompson Ray (Project Director: February 2022 to present)

A two-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. 

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center proposes a two-week, residential, Level II summer institute from July 10 to July 21, 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. The institute will focus on the era’s visual media—including fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments—to examine how information and opinion about the war were recorded and disseminated, and ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ views on both sides of and before and after the conflict.