Word Painter: Ernest Hemingway

ReadOasis Step 2(Part 1) Hemingway Collection, Kennedy Presidential Museum “A writer is always alone, always an outsider," Ernest Hemingway said. [...]

A Colorful Cultural Connection

ReadOasis Step 3 Mia and Sam lived in Los Angeles. Mia's family came from Mexico. Sam's family came from Japan. [...]

Yoshitoshi, Master of Block Prints

ReadOasis Step 2 In Japan, there is a special kind of painting called "ukiyo-e." The word literally means "pictures of [...]

Lady Sings the Blues (Part 1)

ReadOasis Step 2 Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging [...]

El Greco: Genius of Spanish Art

ReadOasis Step 2(Part 1) El Expolio by El Greco El Greco wanted to be a great artist. (His name means [...]

Death of a King: Medgar Evers

ReadOasis Step 2 Every day Medgar Evers worked hard. He was doing his best to bring equal rights for African [...]

Picasso and the Beatles

ReadOasis Step 4 The Spanish painter Picasso demonstrated remarkable artistic aptitude at a very young age. According to his mother, [...]

The Boy who Became Buddha

ReadOasis Step 2 He was born in 1935 -- in a poor farmer's home in northeast Tibet. At age 2, [...]

The Drama of Darwin (Step 3)

ReadOasis Step 3 Annie Darwin was her father's joy, and she treated him with tender kindness. But in 1849 Annie [...]

Little Brothers of the Air (Step 2)

ReadOasis Step 2 Many years ago a man named Francis lived in a small town in Italy. Francis was kind [...]