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).
Life in Pie Town, New Mexico—during the Depression-era time when the Caudills and others met photographer Russell Lee—meant living with di...
Colored photos depicting the plight of people in the Great Depression are rare. See a grouping including this dugout home and its adjacent garden (loc...
Earthquakes, and resulting tsunami-caused damage, is not just a modern-day phenomenon. Lisbon, Portugal was devastated by such events in 1755.
When his nephew, Fred, invites Ebenezer Scrooge for Christmas dinner, the old miser even refuses his nephew's kind request.
Traveling with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge hears about a man who has died. No one seems to have any respect for this person whose name...
As the Spirit of Christmas Present guides Scrooge to various places, on Christmas Eve, he ends at a place where Ebenezer comes face-to-face with the e...
Eddie Adams, a famous war photographer, received the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph which he took, in Saigon, during 1968.
Richmond, Virginia was an important town for Edgar Allan Poe.
You'll be surprised to learn the compelling story behind the famous painting by Edvard Munch called "The Scream."
Although he was a pacifist, who despised war, Albert Einstein also realized that if Hitler and his scientists were the first to discover how to build ...
This image depicts the second page of a letter - from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt - which changed the world.
During the recent solar eclipse, scientists further tested Einstein's famous theory (which resulted from a thought experiment leading to the concept o...
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