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Picturing United States History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence is a digital project based on the belief that visual materials are vital to understanding the American past. This website provides online "Lessons in Looking," a guide to Web resources, forums, essays, reviews, and classroom activities to help teachers incorporate visual evidence into their classrooms. The Picturing U.S. History site will also serve as a clearing house for teachers interested in incorporating visual documents into their U.S. history, American studies, American literature, or other humanities courses.
Of the 100 U.S. Civil War images found in volumes one and two of Alexander Gardener’s Photographic Sketch Book (1866), one image depicts a black woman: Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland. Why might this be a surprising fact? The answer lies in how you respond to the question: What caused the Civil War? When educators [...]
