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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.
Sponsored by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, click! photography changes everything contains commissioned and user-submitted essays and images on photography’s role in shaping six aspects of human behavior, both historically and at present: who we are, what we do, what we see, where we go, what we want and what we remember. Along with contributions by [...]
