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).

Learning lessons from the three Ghosts, Scrooge is appalled at the way looters are selling the stuff they've taken from a dead man's home.

Sol Eytinge, Jr. created illustrations for an 1868 edition of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

After declining his nephew's invitation, Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart. He surprises his family by actually showing-up at Fred's home.

This drawing of Seabiscuit is from Seabiscuit Vs War Admiral: The Greatest Horse Race in History by Kat Shehata (illustrated by Jo McElwee), published...

Leonard D. Smith, who was a teen-aged ranch hand at Ridgewood (and later became a veterinarian), tells an interesting story of Seabiscuit during his r...

Have you ever wondered what lies buried in the ground beneath us?

Bill Genaust, the camera man who recorded the live footage of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, died in the fighting nine days later.

Sgt. Matt Eversmann is portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the movie Black Hawk Down. He is a hero from the Battle for Mogadishu.

Racism in America, during the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was even manifested in law-enforcement officials.

Jess Sarber - Sheriff of Allen County in October of 1933 - lived in Lima, Ohio.

This image depicts the siege of Cartagena when a combined force of French troops and buccaneers found a weakness in the city's heavily fortified defen...

In the fall of 1187, Saladin and his forces besieged the city of Jerusalem. It was not the first time the ancient city was subjected to a siege by for...

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