In a previous article (March 31, 2022) I discussed the existence of a cyclorama in Chattanooga. In the event that you are not a member of my vast multitude (all 3-4) of weekly readers I will repeat ...
In light of the current controversy over the display of events depicting scenes of the Civil War and other events that were a popular mode of expression in the post war era of the 1880-1890s, the ...
Our understanding of history is not fixed. It is subject to revision, sometimes to suit the purposes of a particular ideology and sometimes, one hopes, for the purposes of approaching something closer ...
ATLANTA - More than a century ago, a group of German immigrant artists re-created the scene of a bloody battle they did not witness. Fortified by steins of their adopted city's famous beer, the ...
The Atlanta History Center may be the only place in the world where you can see a movie projected on a historical painting—and you can learn a little bit while you’re marveling at the technology ...
Today, it often seems, great historical battles aren’t those in which military forces determine the course of history but battles over the interpretation of history itself. Who tells the story? Lines ...
The first time Calinda Lee saw the “Battle of Atlanta” Cyclorama, she rolled her eyes in disbelief. The colossal 133-year-old panoramic painting of the Civil War battle featured thousands of human ...
Nostalgia doesn't exist in Atlanta. The "City Too Busy to Hate" is also the city too busy to hang on to keepsakes. While you can find "new" around every corner of town-new homes, new shops, new ...
ATLANTA — At a time when counties, cities and states across the South are removing or covering up Confederate monuments, one of the world’s largest paintings of the American Civil War reopened to the ...
ATLANTA (AP) - At a time when counties, cities and states across the South are removing or covering up Confederate monuments, one of the world's largest paintings of the American Civil War will reopen ...
In this Friday, Feb 15, 2019 photo, The Atlanta Cyclorama, an enormous painting more than 100 years old, is seen at the Atlanta History Center on Friday, Feb 15, 2019, in Atlanta. The Atlanta ...
ATLANTA — At a time when counties, cities and states across the South are removing or covering up Confederate monuments, one of the world's largest paintings of the American Civil War will reopen to ...