"Westward the Course of Empire"; A Survey of Three Thousand Miles of Triumphant Democracy as Seen by a Passenger on the Los-Angeles Limited. Share full article. By Montgomery Schuyler.

Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large ...

Thomas Cole’s 19th century paintings entitled Course of Empire, chronicling the rise and fall of civilizations, have been re-interpreted below as a commentary on the US housing crisis.

Ruscha's Course of Empire shows no carnage. The only sign of disquiet is in some dramatic clouds – and of course the attribution of emotion to weather is strictly in the eye of the beholder.