The largest and most dramatic paintings in "The Civil War and American Art" don't have anything particularly warlike in them, no cannons or gun smoke or bayonets glistening in the morning sun.

The American Art Museum’s exhibition “The Civil War and American Art” shows how American artists and the broader public wrestled with a war that fractured a country’s young identity.

In 1861 and the years that followed, many American men found themselves far ... about a set of envelopes that began to appear only after the Civil War concluded. Printed on high-quality paper ...