Product Description: Many of today's emerging artists are using portraiture or self-portraiture to explore complex issues of identity. At the same time, these artists are also testing the boundaries of the genre of figurative art. Others are finding success through a renewed attention to classical training in representational art...read more

A compelling array of portraits, paintings, photographs, and artifacts offers an illuminating study of the Civil War era as revealed through the lives of the men and women of the period, representing both sides of the conflict, including Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, and Sojourner Truth, among others.

Product Description: The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789--1800 is a multivolume series drawing together a body of documents, from the National Archives and dozens of other repositories, that chronicles the life of the Court in its first decade...read more

One hundred outstanding American sports stars are examined in narrative and illustrations