History Archive

The Arts in Antebellum America

A young nation finds its voice. The painters, writers and musicians who gave antebellum America a culture of its own.

Arts & Music

Three currents of a national culture

Painting, the written word and music in the decades before the Civil War.

The painters of landscape and life in the young republic.

The writers who built a distinctly American literature.

From parlor songs to the concert sensation of Jenny Lind.

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