The Haida Indians used art to tell their legends and myths: totem poles, textiles, tools have all...

The pictures, mostly drawn from medieval manuscripts, show daily life, important people and jolly...

Here is a sampling of the art of civilizations active in Mexico, Central and South America.

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The art of Ancient Egypt, from pharaohs and their households to birds and animals, is rendered in...

The gloriously garbed figures of Queen Elizabeth I and some of the men and women who surrounded h...

Nefertiti, wife of Ankhen-aten, was often shown on equal terms with him in a style more realistic...

Emperors from Julius Caesar to Septimius Severus are pictured, with a few gods, goddesses and ord...

Nicola Benois' delightful designs for the ballet at La Scala are accompanied by the story and a d...

In 1856, as most of the California missions were falling into disrepair, Henry Miller travelled b...

How Confederate soldiers in the Civl War dressed, trained, ate, sang and were organized are all i...

The earliest cowboys, vaqueros, were usually native Americans. How the lives of their successors ...

A Woman Officer in the Confederate Army

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