Visual Arts Story Briefs

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).

When Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union, he implemented an industrialization program which transformed the USSR.

Irish girls who had personal or familial issues in their lives were sometimes removed from their homes and sent to places known as "Magdalene Laundrie...

During the 1930s, photographers like Russell Lee documented the living and working conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including the interi...

The Irish Poor Laws, intended to help the most-desperate people of the country, actually harmed them when landowners who were responsible for tenant f...

As economic conditions grew desperate for Irish people, during the potato famine, residents of entire villages abandoned their homeland in search for ...

After the potato blight infected the crops of Irish tenant farmers, in the summer of 1845, crop failures led to widespread economic distress in Irelan...

Thanks to NASA's Earth Observatory program, we can view Istanbul (previously known as "Constantinople") from space.

Segregation and discrimination was an American fact of life even during the Kennedy Administration. Herb Block create a political cartoon based on a r...

During the first part of his reign, Tsar Ivan IV was not known as "Ivan the Terrible." That moniker came later, after his first wife died and he emplo...

Jackie Kennedy looked radiant on the morning of November 22, 1963.

Lt. Col. Paul Bates, commanding officer of the 761st Tank Battalion, was impressed with Lt. Jack Robinson's influence over the men in his unit, so he ...

Because Jacob Marley cared little for his fellow man during his lifetime, his Ghost carries a long, heavy, ponderous chain.

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