A House Divided exhibition in the Chicago Historical Society Museum is a showcase of the causes and components of the Civil War. However, most importantly this exhibit places slavery, the “peculiar institution,” as the root cause for this devastating domestic war that erased more than 600,000 New World citizens from the earth. The title itself suggests a difference of opinions and they lie between the North and South. The difference between the two was only amplified …showed first 75 words of 2417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2417 total…position and imagine what it would feel like to be that specific party or person. One begins to understand that the two sides’ stories correlate more when seen from both sides’ vantage points. This is accomplished by visually seeing artifacts from the event(s). The curators accomplish just that with this exhibit, A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, and bring to life an exceptionally important event in our great country’s history.