Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War.(Book Review)

Journal of Southern History | August 1, 2003| | Copyright

By Eric Foner, Kirk Savage, Angela Miller, Steven Conn, Andrew Walker, and Margaret Rose Vendryes. Introduction by Andrew Walker and Clare Kunny. Museum Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, c. 2001. Pp. 104. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-86559-186-5.)

This volume consists of essays that originated from a lecture series at the Art Institute of Chicago that accompanied a 1999 exhibition of the same name. Despite the breadth suggested by its monumental title, this published volume consists of a small number of contributions that focus on different, ...

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