Civil War and Its Aftermath | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/educational-resources/uncovering-america/civil-war-and-its-aftermath
In a time when the nation was divided over the issue of slavery, artists helped to shape people’s understandings of the conflict that overtook the nation. Some artists depicted the political figures and events that drove and reflected the conflict. Other artists were on the battlefield itself, bringing the emotional toll of war home in immediate ways.
were to make a drawing of women’s roles in more recent wars (e.g., the war in Afghanistan