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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.
Perhaps the most durable visual manifestation of any society is in its commemorative forms, its monuments, with their intention to convey the significance of certain contemporary events and individuals to future generations. As Kirk Savage’s remarkable 1997 study Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America chronicles, immediately after Abraham Lincoln’s death, [...]
