Gallery Talk: “Seeing Corpses: Death and Visual Culture during the U.S. Civil War”, Faulconer Gallery, Thursday, Sept. 20, 4:15 pm

Associate Professor of History and Director of the Rosenfield Program Sarah Purcell will put the Faulconer's exhibition in the broader context of Civil War visual culture. Pulling from her scholarship on the meanings of Civil War death, she will relate Civil War drawings to the larger culture of photographs, print culture, material culture, ephemera, paintings, and other visual forms. Purcell will discuss how the spectacle of death helped to shape the political and social meanings of the Civil War.