San Antonio College Library

Before this film no one else was ever permitted to film inside the Louvre. Set against the panoramic history of France, the priceless treasures and incomparable art are shared through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis.

Explores some of the world's most renowned museums, revealing the history behind some of the more mysterious objects they house.

The world's most important museum dedicated to the history of ancient Greece, the National Archaeological Museum displays 11,000 exhibits from 7000 BC to the Roman conquest. In this episode, we accelerate an ancient warship to ramming speed to discover why Athenian democracy beat Persian tyranny, then visit a king's grave to reveal how bogus archaeology helped fuel the pseudohistorical ravings of Adolf Hitler. We suit volunteers in armor made of bronze...

From dinosaurs to meteorites to the origins of the human species, the American Museum of Natural History houses 32 million objects. In this episode, we meet an American farm boy whose love for Africa changed the image of African wildlife from scary to noble. We witness the mating rituals of a 400 million year old crab species whose unique blood harbors secrets crucial to modern medicine, then crack open a dinosaur egg to uncover a clue that overturns...

A pictorial collection of 220 masterpieces.

Many color illustrations with explanations from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, highlighting art from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries, from Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, British, and American schools.

"The complete state-by-state guide to battlegrounds, landmarks, museums, relics, and sites"--Cover.

This book presents ways to explore and teach history outside the traditional classroom experience--by the study of historic photographs, mail-order catalogs, cartography, historic house museums and villages, the 1876 Centennial, plants and natural material culture, and regional studies through what the author calls above-ground archaeology.