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Portfolio: Images of War as Landscape

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Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]

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In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

Painting, The Mount House, by William Sidney Mount.
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The Racially Diverse Paintings of a 19th-Century American Artist

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Long Island artist William Sidney Mount painted life as he saw it.

Photo of German offensive at Riga.
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After Riga fell, Russia lost whatever stomach it had for staying in the war.

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These once ubiquitous airplanes may have looked like birds, but they were plant-based.

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Despite nearly a decade passing since this editor’s first — and dramatically different, i.e. better, travel conditions — the emotions Normandy evoked were the same.

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