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    The Smithsonian American Art Museum's new exhibition, "The Civil War and American Art," which opens today, has two stars. One is the enslaved black American; the other is Winslow Homer.

  • iPad app shows US library's Civil War images in 3D

    A new iPad app developed from images from the Library of Congress is giving viewers a look at the Civil War in 3D.

  • This 1865 photo provided by the George Eastman House shows Alexander Gardner's portrait of Lewis Payne, one of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, before his execution. The albumen print, part of a Union officer's album illustrating the assassination plot, is on display with other Civil War-era photographs at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., through June 12, 2011. (AP Photo/George Eastman House, Alexander Gardner)

    Civil War scenes are focus of NY museum exhibit

    Portraits of John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln are among prized Civil War images going on display at a museum of photography and film in upstate New York.

  • A soldier who served 15 months in Iraq bonds with her nephew upon her return (clockwise from above center). A family visits the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry camp near Washington during the Civil War. During the Gulf War, Marines patrol a secured perimeter near Kuwait on March 7, 1991 as an oil well burns in the distance.

    Soldiering on through history

    "War is hell," said Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman, but its grim consequences are only a part of a traveling exhibition of combat photography called "The American Soldier."

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