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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.
Next week, some of the ASHP staff will be working with a group of New York City public school teachers at a week-long summer institute, where they will develop classroom activities on the U.S. homefront during World War II and the War in Vietnam. In gathering materials for them on the former topic, my colleague [...]
