Civil War 150 is a national traveling panel exhibition organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with The Library of America. The project, Civil War 150: Exploring the War and Its Meaning through the Words of Those Who Lived It, has been made possible in part through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Image Credit: “Bombardment of Fort Sumter,” print by Currier & Ives, ca. 1861. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC02881.15)