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).
Beatrix dies in 1943, but her legacy lives on through her stories and drawings.
Examine the author's observations about Beatrix Potter and her life.
Perfect for advertising, Allen & Ginter is the first company to use baseball cards as cigarette package-inserts.
Authors Clement Moore and Thomas Nast are responsible for creating the image of Santa Claus as fat and jolly.
The Pilgrims become indentured servants, and then unsuccessfully try sailing the Speedwell and Mayflower to America.
Even though teams are playing baseball in the northern U.S., there is no evidence it is popular in the south until the Civil War.
Along with her drawings of animals, Beatrix illustrates insects, fossils, plants, and fungi.
See pictures of Britain's Lake District where the Potter family spends their summers starting in 1882.
Born into a lower class, Becky Sharp's goal is to live in "high society," so she tries to marry into it.
Ayers finds his inspiration in Beethoven, a composer who has been dead for more than 180 years.
Billy Beane, the A's general manager, and Paul DePodesta, an A's scout, discovers a method to pick baseball players using limited funds.
Historians are not sure who made the first cards, which stiffened a pack of cigarettes, but James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke gets credit.
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