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).
This painting of King Sigismund I, from Poland, was created by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) around 1553. The oil-on-tin plate measures 19.5 ...
Silently marching down 5th Avenue, nearly 10,000 African-Americans protest discrimination and Jim-Crow laws on July 28, 1917. It is the first time tha...
Silkeborg Museum, located in the Danish town of Silkeborg, has an Iron-Age collection which features two mummies found in a nearby peat bog.
Sinn Fin (meaning "Ourselves Alone") is an Irish political party favoring Irish Republicanism for ALL of Ireland, including Northern Ireland. This ima...
This fossilized dinosaur head, found in China, once belonged to a previously unknown animal.
In the election of 1910, many Irish nationalists were elected to Parliament.
This skull artifact is known as the "Skull of Doom" and the "Mitchell-Hedges Skull.''
This drawing - entitled Africans on Board the Slave Bark Wildfire, April 30, 1860 - was published in Harper's Weekly on the 2nd of June, 1860.
A pro-Southern political cartoon intended to show that American slaves were better-off than British workers.
This image appears in "A Picture of Slavery, for Youth," by Jonathan Walker. It depicts events occurring in America.
In 1843, before he began writing "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens visited the industrialized town of Manchester, England.
Assault troops who neared the Normandy shoreline, where they would soon face unspeakably difficult conditions, had already endured a difficult crossin...
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