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A 6 page contention that through the examination and study of different works of art from Civil War era, we can learn about what life was like during this tumultuous time. This contention is supported with examples. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the lives of people and the circumstances that shape those lives. Through out time historians have looked to artwork as a source of knowledge about the time and place
it was created. Artwork allows us to view life through the eyes of the artist. Artwork gives a glimpse of what was occurring in the world at the time of
its creation. The artwork that was created in America during the Civil War, is no different. The thesis can be presented, in fact, that:
Through the examination and study of different works of art from this time period, we can learn about what life
was like during this tumultuous time. Things were very different in the Civil War
era. We know that prior to the war women, for example, had yet to even begin to achieve partial equality to the white men of the time. Women
were valued for their beauty and for their domestic roles in the family. They did not work outside the home and they played no role in politics. Middle
class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, played a greater role in society as a whole, however, than did the underclass. With the advent
of the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on the battlefield women had to make
up for them back home. One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in
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