What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
Bookcover image of Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War, by Jeff Shaara.
This graphic, from the National Park Service, depicts the headquarter-locations of General U.S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee at the time of the Con...
This image depicts the handwriting of Edward of Woodstock, later known as The Black Prince. It is online, courtesy the British Library.
Not only was Herodotus the "Father of History," he approached the entire subject from a different point of view - his own. In his Histories, He...
In its past, Bedloe’s Island was a good place to quarantine people with contagious diseases. It is far-enough off the shore of Manhattan t...
When Albert Hicks was executed on Bedloe’s Island, during July of 1860, newspaper headlines read as though a crowd-drawing entertainment scene h...
The text of this story, published in the Hammond Times on the 50th anniversary of Dillinger's death (July 22, 1984), reads as follows: "Her nightma...
This is part two of a story about Hobart Wilgus, published in the Hammond Times on the 50th anniversary of Dillinger's death (July 22, 1984). It...
In this May 3rd, 1863, decoded telegram to President Lincoln, from Maj. Gen. Butterfield, the commander-in-chief is told that "the battle has been mos...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and 1929's stock-market crash. Page 2-of-4 of the Ho...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and the stock-market crash of October, 1929. Page 3-...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1929. Page 4-of-4 of t...
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