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Roadside America

This January, Altamira Fine Art will be hosting a solo exhibition for Scottsdale, Arizona-based artist Geoffrey Gersten.

Dream-like Aura

There is something simultaneously haunting and beautiful about the paintings of Stephen Mackey.

GOING WITH YOUR GUT

HOW DO MICROBES AFFECT OUR HEALTH? LET'S COUNT THE WAYS...

A Plot to Kill President the

For several months, actor John Wilkes Booth’s band of conspirators had plotted to capture President Abraham Lincoln and hold him hostage in exchange for Confederate prisoners.

Let the Thing Be Pressed

In June 1864, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant began a nearly 10-month campaign in Virginia.

COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO 2025 AUCTIONS

While Christie's 2022 sale Visionary: G. Paul Allen Collection, which made $1.6 billion, still reigns supreme as the most lucrative single-owner auction of all time, 2024 had exciting moments of its own.

Little Creatures Among Us THE MANY MICROBES IN OUR DAILY LIVES

When you think you're alone, you're actually not. In the ground, the air, your room, and even your body are Strillions and trillions of creatures so tiny you can't see them.

AND IN OTHER 1865 NEWS

A group of African Americans stop at the White House’s annual public reception on January 1, where they shake hands with President Abraham Lincoln.

A Significant Discovery

J. Kenneth Fine Art unveils a collection of small oil studies by Lynne Mapp Drexler

CURATED SELECTIONS

Two major private collections lead Christie's January American art sale

ENDURING STRENGTH

Christie's American Art Specialist reflects on the state of the market

FORT FISHER'S FALL

Outnumbered Confederate soldiers inside Fort Fisher were unable to withstand the approach of Union troops by land and the constant Union naval bombardment from the sea.

WAR SHERMAN-STYLE

As far as Union Major General William T. Sherman was concerned, the Civil War had gone on long enough.

Cultivating Home

A wide variety of fine antiques, art and garden design are showcased in Nashville

HEALING THE NATION

President Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second time on March 4, 1865.

VERSUS

An exhibition at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden juxtaposes concepts of Modernism and modernity

A TRAILBLAZING COLLECTION

Swann Auction Galleries hosts Abstract Beauty: the Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim this February

AN AMERICAN VISION

Sotheby's presents a two-session sale featuring significant works of traditional and Western historic art

ENDURING ALLURE

Works by the Wyeth family steal the show at Bonham's American Art sale

ART OF AN ERA

A January sale at Swann Galleries showcases artists of the WPA

LAST SHOTS

The last Confederate forces in the Civil War didn’t surrender in the spring of 1865 or on a battlefield.

Putting the Pieces Together

Americans needed to begin to put the past behind them, come together, and plan for the future in the spring of 1865. But Abraham Lincoln, the man best equipped to lead them and who had hoped to restore the country as smoothly and peacefully as possible, had been assassinated.

If everything the human brain does is basically sets of electrical impulses, how exactly does that translate into a state of mind?

You're not the only one asking this question. Every neuroscientist in the world is wondering the exact same thing, says Zach Mainen

EARTH'S TINIEST BUILDERS

THE HIDDEN WORLD OF MICROBES IN THE EARTH'S CRUST

MUMMIES SPEAK

ABOUT MICROBES, MIGRATION, AND MORE

A Helping Hand

The spring season is hard in any agricultural society. Plants and animals are too small to eat.

PEACE TALKS

The fall of Fort Fisher made clear that the Confederacy’s days were numbered. Southerners were tired and hungry.

RECASTING THE PAST

The Smithsonian explores how American sculpture has shaped the ways generations visualize and conceptualize

Getting Started

Beginning in April 1861, two armies— both made up of American soldiers—began fighting each other in the Civil War.

BUG Detective

A burglar sneaks into a house on a quiet street in New York City. He walks through the house, touching countertops and door handles. Finally, he steals a single card from a full deck. Then he leaves.