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<title>Picturing US History</title>
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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.
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<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/</link>
<copyright>Picturing U.S. History by  American Social History Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/about.php Permission to use images have been obtained from their respective right's holders. Creative Commons license pretains to textual content, layout, and original textual works. </copyright>

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        <title><![CDATA[Picturing The American West]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay provides a brief chronological overview of the visual evidence available for teaching about the American West. Lavender discusses some of the first representations of the region by the different populations that claimed it as their own, depictions of the West as a site of nineteenth-century U.S. expansionism, and visual materials that illustrate the complicated ways the region's distinctiveness has been represented into the twentieth century.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=216</link>        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:21:27 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Imaging Americans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shawn Michelle Smith discusses Frances Benjamin Johnston's photograph of Whittier primary school students as a historical inquiry into African-American education, citizenship, &amp;quot;uplift&amp;quot; campaigns, and visual propaganda.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=215</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:45:19 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[American Soldiers as Victims in Vietnam]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Parsons uses Arthur Greenspon&amp;rsquo;s 1968 photograph of a U.S. Army paratrooper in Vietnam to explore the different versions of history that have been presented to the public since 1968.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=214</link>        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:13 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Shoemaker's Story]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Gyory reviews a new study by Anthony W. Lee that uses photography to explore the impact of Chinese immigration on a New England factory town in the late-nineteenth century.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=213</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:27:31 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia Barnhill reviews the most recent broad historical survey of American political cartoons.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=212</link>        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:23:15 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Irish Immigrant Stereotypes and American Racism]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 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.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=211</link>        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:47:09 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony W. Lee reviews the story behind a photograph that captured mid-1970s Boston desegregation and school busing experiments.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=210</link>        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:13:01 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;For a Noble Man, a Prince&amp;quot;: Images and Identity in Colonial America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Images and objects from paintings to wallpaper and almanac prints to furniture served to shape their owners identities in British America before the revolution. This activity assists in deciphering the messages in visual images that convey social status and economic power in the late colonial period. ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/lessons_colonial.php</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:59:51 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Great Depression]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 2009, Barbara Melosh, Professor Emerita of George Mason University will lead the discussion on teaching with images of the Great Depression and New Deal. Barbara Melosh is the author of Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater (1991) and Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption (2002). She is co-editor of Gender and American History since 1890 (1993).  ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=12</link>        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:09:35 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The West ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Fall 2009, Catherine Lavender will lead the forum on using images of the American West in teaching. Catherine Lavender is the author of Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest, (2006) and co-editor of The Western Women's Reader (2000). Her current research is on the murder of Henrietta Schmerler, a Columbia University anthropology doctoral student murdered in Arizona in 1931.   ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=12</link>        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:09:21 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Civil War]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Fall 2009, Alice Fahs, will lead a discussion on images of the Civil War. Alice Fahs is the author of The imagines Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (2001) and co-editor of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004). Her current project, a study of the Northern literary marketplace during the Civil War, is titled &amp;quot;Publishing the Civil War: the Literary Marketplace and the Meanings of the Civil War in the North, 1861-1865.&amp;quot; In it I explicitly connect commerce with culture, as I seek to analyze the ways in which the practices of the literary marketplace had a fundamental impact upon the available political and literary meanings of the war in the North--and therefore upon long-term memories of the war.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=12</link>        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:09:04 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Slavery]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Spring 2009, art historian Kirk Savage will moderate this forum on images of slavery. During the past 20 years Kirk Savage has written extensively on public monuments within the larger theoretical context of collective memory and identity. His book Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America won the 1998 John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book published that year in American Studies. Since then Savage has become interested in issues of traumatic memory, and has written on the &amp;ldquo;therapeutic memorial&amp;rdquo; before and after 9/11. Hiscurrent book in progress on the memorial landscape of Washington, D.C. reconsiders the key public monuments and spaces of the capital within a narrative of nation building, spatial conquest, ecological destructiveness, and psychological trauma.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=12</link>        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:08:53 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Visual Evidence in Jacksonian America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When teaching about Jacksonian America, certainly one topic that comes to mind as critical is the market revolution. This short essay examines the visual evidence for the market revolution by examining family portraits, including folk portraiture, landscape paintings, and political cartoons. Professor Jaffee suggests ways to combine text and images in order to utilize images in teaching not as mere illustrations but rather as objects that constitute historical meaning.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=209</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:59:37 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Picturing Colonial America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay provides a brief chronological overview of the visual evidence available for teaching about the British colonies in North America. Mancall provides information on some of the first European images of America from the 1590s that were crucial for Britain&amp;rsquo;s colonizing mission, the depictions of the Pequot War, and the drawings that addressed the political crisis of the 1760s. ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=208</link>        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:56:12 EST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;I Always Had Pads with Me&quot;: A G.I. Artist&acirc;™s Sketchpad, 1943-1944]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This small but fascinating site focuses on one soldier&amp;rsquo;s experience of World War II, but speaks to the universal experience of war from the perspective on the ground. Ben Hurwitz was just twenty years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces in the wake of Japan&amp;rsquo;s attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. Like many of the men and women who entered military service, Hurwitz (who changed his name to Brown after the war) kept a record of his experiences. But his &amp;ldquo;journal&amp;rdquo; was a sketchpad, and, during his two years in North Africa and Italy, Corporal Hurwitz drew and painted at every opportunity. Hurwitz&amp;rsquo;s pictures are accompanied by the artist&amp;rsquo;s commentary transcribed by historian Joshua Brown in November 1996. This site will be of interest to anyone looking for a firsthand visual account of life in the U.S. military during the Second World War]]></description>
		<link>http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/75</link>        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:59:39 EST</pubDate>
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