Traveling exhibitions

Lee and Grant

The Lee and Grant exhibition that premiered at the Virginia Historical Society in 2007 and then traveled to St. Louis, New York, and Houston in 2008–2009 was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Mid-America Arts Alliance in Kansas City has replicated Lee and Grant in a reduced-size panel version that is now traveling to the itinerary listed below. The smaller show is offered as part of "NEH on the Road," a program created to provide "an exciting opportunity for communities of all sizes to experience some of the best exhibitions funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)."

Travel dates:
• April 06, 2009–May 25, 2009 at the Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• June 16, 2009–August 11, 2009 at the Old Red Museum, Dallas, Texas
• September 01, 2009–October 20, 2009 at the Schumacher Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
• November 10, 2009–January 07, 2010 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Little Rock, Arkansas
• January 28, 2010–March 16, 2010 at the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, Inc.. Texarkana, Texas
• April 06, 2010–May 25, 2010 at the Barrington Area Historical Museum, Barrington, Illinois
• June 16, 2010–August 11, 2009 (On hold) Chadron, Nebraska
• September 01, 2010–October 20, 2010 at the Powers Museum, Carthage, Missouri
• November 10, 2010–January 07, 2011 at the Bell County Museum, Belton, Texas
• January 28, 2011–March 16, 2011 (On hold) Port Allen, Louisiana

The exhibition explores the boyhoods of Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, their West Point careers, their early assignments and family lives, their service in the Mexican War and on the nation's frontiers, their Civil War campaigns, and their postwar contributions to national reconciliation. Actual uniforms and accouterments owned by the generals are displayed to suggest the presence of Lee and of Grant as contemporaries knew them. Letters and other written records, and visual images—paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture—are presented to allow a glimpse of each man as he understood himself and his place in the world.

What's related:
• Press release | Exhibition catalog | View online exhibition | Listen to the Banner Lecture online