Peter John Brownlee is associate curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art. Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. Diane Dillon is director of the Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs Department at the Newberry Library. Daniel Greene is vice president for research and academic programs at the Newberry Library and an affiliated faculty member of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Scott Manning Stevens is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library.

"'The present is a year productive of strange and surprising events,' a newspaper editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. 'It is one prolific of revolution and abounding in great and startling novelties.... We are entering, to say the least, upon a new and important epoch in the history of the world.' Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a half, it is clear that those war years would prove to be an era not just of revolution, but also of revelation: the passing of timeworn realities and the intimation of things to come." (Adam Goodheart, author of 1861)"

Peter John Brownlee is associate curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art. Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. Diane Dillon is director of the Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs Department at the Newberry Library. Daniel Greene is vice president for research and academic programs at the Newberry Library and an affiliated faculty member of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Scott Manning Stevens is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library.

"'The present is a year productive of strange and surprising events,' a newspaper editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. 'It is one prolific of revolution and abounding in great and startling novelties.... We are entering, to say the least, upon a new and important epoch in the history of the world.' Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a half, it is clear that those war years would prove to be an era not just of revolution, but also of revelation: the passing of timeworn realities and the intimation of things to come." (Adam Goodheart, author of 1861)"

Peter John Brownlee is associate curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art. Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. Diane Dillon is director of the Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs Department at the Newberry Library. Daniel Greene is vice president for research and academic programs at the Newberry Library and an affiliated faculty member of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Scott Manning Stevens is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library.

"'The present is a year productive of strange and surprising events,' a newspaper editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. 'It is one prolific of revolution and abounding in great and startling novelties.... We are entering, to say the least, upon a new and important epoch in the history of the world.' Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a half, it is clear that those war years would prove to be an era not just of revolution, but also of revelation: the passing of timeworn realities and the intimation of things to come." (Adam Goodheart, author of 1861)"