Visual Arts Documents

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).

Cornelius Jacob Langenhoven wrote the lyrics to "Die Stem Van Suid-Afrika" ("The Spirit of South Africa") in 1918.  Marthinus Lourens de Villiers...

Bookcover image of Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex, by John Horner & Don Lessem.

The FBI's file on Dillinger still contains a drawing of the stake-out at the Biograph Theater, described as follows: A hand-written document from o...

The Bureau of Investigation had issued a "Wanted" poster for John Dillinger.  After he was killed, at Chicago's Biograph Theater, the poster was ...

Do you want to know more about how dinosaur fossils were discovered?  Do you want to explore some dinosaur controversies?  If so ... check o...

Bookcover image of Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, by Joseph Frank.

This document, from the National Archives, is the draft of President Reagan's famous speech which he delivered in Berlin.  Included here is the p...

This family tree depicts the genealogy for the House of Lorraine.  It begins with Adalbert Herzog von Ober-Lothringen, in 1047, to the abdication...

East Chicago's official web site provides the following information about this Indiana city: Incorporated in 1893 as a railroad and steel town, Eas...

In March of 1945, Albert Einstein wrote another letter to President Roosevelt.  He urged caution as America moved forward with the development of...

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.

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