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A New York Times article describing the rededication of the New York City Vietnam Veterans Plaza following 9/11. The article recalls how, before it was restored, the memorial was neglected: "Vandals broke the glass bricks, stole the brass lettering,…

This particular image is of flowers placed a few days after John McCains death. He served as a Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War.

This ad for men’s clothing relates to the passage from "The Grey Woman" in several ways. The first is that that the advertisement shows the type of clothing that men at that time wore. The most interesting part of ad is the images of the men. How…

This details the Act that was passed in 1990 that details the rights artists' hold when they display their visual art pieces in public.

The blue limestone on this fascade was salvaged from the abandoned Ruins of Fort de Chartres and re-purposed for this building.

The blue limestone may have been chosen, due to it's rarity and uniqueness, since the only source for this particular…

This book is a biography of the World War II hero, Louis Zamperini. The book follows Zamperini from his boyhood mischief to his days as an olympic track star and then his journey as an airman in the U.S. army during World War II. After his army…

This is an experiment from some students in the University of Illinois. The students had different people from different professions (fine art teacher, art therapist, and social worker) and had them all independently make comments on some student's…

This is an image of the title page of the title page in the first edition of Hardy's "Life's Little Ironies," which is the collection of short stories that "On the Western Circuit" was originally published in. I thought this image was interesting…