The Arts Story Briefs

A famous cartoon, by an unknown artist, depicts how Colonial Americans viewed their mother country (and their future without her).

Tintoretto created the painting depicted in this image - Ascent to Calvary - for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco between 1565 and 1567.

During the American Civil War, the North had significant concerns about Britain and France helping the South.

When do paintings tell the real story and when do they depict a romanticized view of events? Does it matter? How do we determine when a piece of art c...

Learn how anonymous people, celebrating peace at the end of World War II and captured in an iconic photograph - were identified years later.

The poem of Robert Dwyer Joyce - The Wind that Shakes the Barley - has been set to hauntingly beautiful music.

Playing a key role in supporting Henry VIII's decision to split from papal authority in England, Thomas Cranmer grants the King a dispensation to divo...

According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington's troops were poorly clothed and hungry when they attacked at Trenton. Confident tha...

Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first ...

Chinese laborers help to build the American West, but how are the workers treated as they build their new country?

People have been exchanging Valentines for hundreds of years, but what do we know about the origins of this romantic Day of Love called "Valentine's D...

In this clip—from a 1984 performance of Verdi’s Requiem—Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (Wiener Philharmoniker)...