Visual Arts Documents

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).

Liao Cheng-Chih was the Vice-Chair of the China Peace Committee in 1964.  On the 20th of July, that year, he addressed a rally during which he in...

What did the world look like in 450 BC?  This map provides a birds-eye view - according to the History of Herodotus. Click on the image for a mo...

Image of a facsimilie copy of the Abdication Letter that Tsar Nicholas II was forced to sign.

This document, one of America's top treasures, is Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address.  The edits are in the President's own handwriting.Th...

America elected Abraham Lincoln as their 16th President on the 6th of November, 1860.  The United States was on the verge of Civil War, at the ti...

When Mary Elizabeth Jenkins - the future Mary Surratt - was twelve years old, her mother sent her to a Catholic boarding school in Alexandria.  I...

Account of Slaves Sold in Barbados, on the 26th of February, 1685.  Click the image to expand its view. The UK National Archives provides a key ...

James Ramsey Ullman, the first American to ascend Aconcagua, said the great mountain fools its climbers.  People think it requires little technic...

In 1916, congess passed a law forbidding the sale of goods made by children outside the state.  Though the law was overturned it marked an import...

John Brown's address to the Court.  Click on the Image to enlarge it.

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