What role did creative marketing play in financing the Civil War?

Wars are expensive, and the Civil War was certainly no exception! We talk with PhD Candidate, Dave Thomson, about how new marketing strategies for bonds helped finance the Civil War.

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Prisoners from the Front

Before Winslow Homer became a famed sea-scape painter, he was a Civil War correspondent and illustrator for Harpers Weekly. The above paiting, entitled “Prisoners from the Front,” (1866) was featured…