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While many writers and artists are discovered after their time, George Bernard Shaw was a source of fascination to his contemporaries. John Palmer takes a stab at debunking what he believed to be myths about Shaw in his book "George Bernard Shaw:…

George Bernard Shaw's contemporary, Gilbert K Chesterdon, dedicated a book to exploring Shaw as a person. He wrote it as a first edition, indicating he anticipated more to follow. This may have been because Shaw was still alive when Chesterdon was…

Strips of fabric with painted red cross

An engraving illustrating a book.

In the book, A Knights Tale, a knight writes to his children the night before battle to explain the important values of life. He addresses his children with the values that all humans must know such as solitude, friendship, forgiveness, cooperation.…

After he died, LIFE Magazine published a tribute to the life and work of John Ames Mitchell, certainly evidencing great respect and admiration on the part of the many of the people he worked with during his prolific career. He worked successfully in…

Accompanying the text are 21 “decorations,” as the book describes them, done by Albert D. Blashfield. The decorations appear in the front of the book after the title page and before the publishing and copyright information, on the dedication…

In the video, Martin Luther King is making his famous "I have a dream" speech. He addresses the issue of segregation by talking of his dream of the future. A future where people of all races will be able to live together in harmony. Where people will…