Visual Arts Chapters

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).

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects more than two million Americans each year.

Dr. Colin Andrews, an English scientist, claims the Earth's magnetic field can form crop circles.

Miniatures illustrate every day life as well as religious life.

Official records contain many military photographs of the more-than-month-long siege and capture of Iwo Jima.

In 37 days, Sherman travels from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in between. His plan is to destroy the Confederates' ability to make war.

View photographs and drawings of the siege of Petersburg before General Lee surrenders.

Each country develops its own unique holiday gift-giver; Dutch settlers in America share their Sinterklaas that non-Dutch speakers mispronounce as San...

Michelangelo paints one of the world's most famous works of art on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It has recently been restored.

People refuse to help each other or the sick and parents abandon children; no one is safe from the possibility of catching the plague.

Hitler has plans to defeat Russia and control her oil fields, but he does not foresee the Russian resistance.

Hitler underestimates Stalin and the Russian people when he plans to conquer the Soviet Union.

Space rocks are natural space debris that float in space, but occasionally reach the Earth's surface.

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