She added, “Removing the artists with Confederate ties rewrites art history. Art historians examine the meaning of art in its own time as well as how it’s perceived in the current moment.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.

In 2017, the planned removal of a Confederate statue from a park in Charlottesville, Va., led to a right-wing rally protesting that plan, and a counter-protest (resulting in one fatality and ...

Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ...