Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 12 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 12, 1865

Daniel Foster Letter to Richard Baxter Foster May 11, 1863

Daniel Foster's letter to his brother Richard Baxter Foster from Camp of the 33rd Miss. Vol. near Aquin Creek, Virginia on May 11, 1863.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife May 24, 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on May 24, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 1 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas About Sept. 1 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 7 1863

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on March 7, 1863

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 6 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 6, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife July 8 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on July 8, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife October 17 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on October 17, 1865 at Texas En route to Ft. McIntosh

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife June 2 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brownsville, Texas on June 2, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife May 28 1864

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Baton Rouge, LA on May 28,1864

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 8 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 8, 1865

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 30, 1865

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from Brazos Santiago, Texas on March 30, 1865

Exhibit: A Dream Is Kindled

In 1865, by the light of a campfire at Fort Bravos, Texas, the members of the 62nd United State Colored Troops discussed their plans for the life after the Civil War. The idea of starting a school for African Americans in Missouri appealed to the troops and soon a movement began to realize their dreams.

Background Checks for Firearms Sales and Loans: Law, History, and Policy

This article examines past and present systems requiring that a person receive permission before buying or borrowing a firearm. The article covers laws from the eighteenth century to the present. Such laws have traditionally been rare in the United States. The major exceptions are antebellum laws of the slaves states, and of those same states immediately after the Civil War, which forbade gun ownership by people of color, unless the individual had been granted government permission. Today “universal background checks” are based on a system created by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his “Everytown” lobby. Such laws have been enacted in several states, and also proposed as federal legislation. Besides covering the private sale of firearms, they also cover most loans of firearms and the return of loaned firearms. By requiring that almost all loans and returns may only be processed by a gun store, these laws dangerously constrict responsible firearms activities, such as safety training and safe storage. Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California are among the jurisdictions which have enacted less restrictive, more effective legislation which create controls on private firearms sales, without inflicting so much harm on firearms safety.

Maddening the Minotaur : Dora Maar'a power over Pablo Picasso

Dora Maar is primarily viewed as Pablo Picasso’s mistress and muse in art historical scholarship, and scholars frequently analyze her work in terms of its evolution as a consequence of her relationship with Pablo Picasso, therefore asserting the power Picasso had over Maar. Through comparative analysis and socio-historical investigation, I assert that Maar’s strong personality, political awareness, and artistic vision profoundly influenced Picasso during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.