Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, delivered the keynote address at the 2014 Summer Institutes: Teaching the Humanities through Art. In this talk, Harvey discusses curating her 2012 exhibition, "The Civil War and American Art," and the insights and discoveries she made along the way. Directed to an audience of history and language arts teachers, Harvey discusses the integral role of primary source material to her research, investigates how to “read” a painting, and considers how to engage today’s students with history.