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).
In this U.S. Air Force photo, we see four C-123s spraying defoliant in September of 1965.
After the Battle of Waterloo was over, people were stunned at the number of casualties. It was Napoleon's final military effort.
Once on the same side of conflict, following their 1939 Non-Aggression Pact, Hitler and Stalin would soon be at opposite ends of "The Great Patriotic ...
Following the orders of Joseph Stalin, a young Soviet sergeant named Yakov Pavlov bravely resisted German forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
When Vladimir Lenin died, and Joseph Stalin came to power, people in the Soviet Union were forced to change the way they conducted business.
Parliament passes the Stamp Act, in 1765, and Colonial Americans rise-up in protest. Parliament repels it on March 18, 1766. Ben Franklin's cartoon dr...
After the Declaration of Independence is read to people in New York City - on July 9, 1776 - a gathered crowd pulls-down the statue of King George III...
This image depicts a plaster cast which copies a marble statue of Oinomaos, the father of Hippodameia.
The Statue of Zeus, by the Greek sculptor Pheidias, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This artistic impression is by Quatremère de Q...
In 1859, Samuel Clemens was a river pilot on the Mississippi River, a very busy place where steamboats sometimes raced each other.
Although he is poor, and living at London's Charterhouse, Stephen Gray conducts experiments which will heavily influence future scientists.
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus - more commonly known as Saint Jerome - was a 4th century scholar who translated the Bible into Latin.
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