Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War

Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War

The annual Low lecture with Peter H. Wood, Department of History, Duke University

In 1866, the great American artist Winslow Homer created an unusual painting of an enslaved woman, linking Georgia’s infamous Andersonville POW camp to the black struggle for freedom. But this picture vanished for a full century. Peter Wood, the first scholar to explore this painting of an enslaved woman closely, suggests that Homer’s image provides a striking new way for Americans to view the Civil War, and ourselves, in the twenty-first century.

This lecture will take place at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. For a map of UMBC's campus, visit http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/

 Sponsored by the Department of History with support from the Dresher Center for the Humanities