Blood and Ink: Front Pages From the Civil War January 26, 2013

This exhibition showcases more than 30 historic front pages from the Newseum collection spanning the length of the war, from the birth of the Confederacy to the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Front pages from Northern and Southern newspapers show both Union and Confederate viewpoints while illuminating the challenges faced by reporters on the battlefield and the new technologies that revolutionized war reporting. Newspapers in the exhibit also trace the divisive issue of slavery, the chief cause of the Civil War, from an 1807 newspaper featuring ads for slaves to an 1865 front page heralding the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.