Authors: Londa Anderson and Joanna Siefert.Anderson has been living with chronic mental health issues most of her life. Creating artwork is one of her main coping mechanisms that she has discovered. When feeling hopeless, she paints and this brings her hope again by realizing she can share her thoughts and feelings with the world via a paintbrush. Anderson’s dream is to touch those who are living with mental health issues. She hopes to inspire people to utilize one’s artistic abilities as a coping strength. Anderson and Siefert would like to encourage people to end the stigma surrounding mental illness within one’s community, home and within one’s own mind. ~With Art, Comes Hope~

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. Metal and wood engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, watercolors, and drawings all reflect changing attitudes towards gender, politics, the family, education, and industrialization. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.