Timothy O'Sullivan, Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, 1873This image of an inscribed rock raises questions about the Spanish conquest of the American Southwest, post-Civil War western expansion, and the Frontier Thesis.
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Timothy O'Sullivan, Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, 1873This image of an inscribed rock raises questions about the Spanish conquest of the American Southwest, post-Civil War western expansion, and the Frontier Thesis.
Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves, c. 1862 Eastman Johnson's painting of fugitive slaves helps address ways to teach a pivotal question in U.S. history: Did Lincoln free the slaves—or did the slaves free themselves?
John Gast, American Progress, 1872Historian Martha A. Sandweiss demonstrates how John Gast's 1872 painting, which was widely disseminated as a commercial color print, conveys a range of ideas about the frontier in nineteenth-century America.
Irish Immigrant Stereotypes and American RacismIn this essay, Kevin Kenny examines a British political cartoon to raise questions about the transatlantic nature of anti-Irish prejudice and its relationship to the history of racism in America.
Thomas Eakins, The Champion Single Sculls, 1871In this essay, historian Ian Gordon describes how he uses Thomas Eakins's painting The Champion Single Sculls to explore America's cultural and economic transition to modernity in the late-nineteenth century.
