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<title>Picturing US History: My Favorite Image</title>
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In this collection of essays, educators from across the country discuss archival images that they have found useful in teaching major themes in U.S. history. If you have a particular image you use in the classroom, we invite you to propose it for our "My Favorite Image" collection.</description>
<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/myfavoriteimage.php</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[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[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[Thomas Eakins, The Champion Single Sculls, 1871]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 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.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=74</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Two Photos, Many Stories]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian William Friedheim uses before and after photographs of Lakota students taken at the Carlisle Indian School to raise issues about Native American identity and assimilation, and demonstrates how examining photographs as primary documents, combined with additional primary sources, shows students how use of evidence creates historical meaning.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=75</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Portrait of Sojourner Truth, 1864]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This carte-de-visite portrait of African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth was sold to help raise money for her speaking tours. Art historian Elizabeth Hutchinson uses it to explore public perceptions of slavery, abolitionism, celebrity, and the constructed nature of photographs.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=176</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thomas Nast, Milk Tickets for Babies, 1876]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael O'Malley explains how Thomas Nast's 1876 political cartoon lampooning paper money provides an opportunity for students to explore public debate about economic transformations during the Gilded Age. ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=80</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Timothy O'Sullivan, Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, 1873]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This image of an inscribed rock raises questions about the Spanish conquest of the American Southwest, post-Civil War western expansion, and the Frontier Thesis.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=81</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Two Views of a Dead Rabbit]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay examines two images of members of an Irish street gang in the mid-nineteenth century that address issues of immigrant stereotyping, urban immigration, poverty, and reform in the wake of large-scale Irish immigration.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=168</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;Doing History&amp;quot; with Two Portraits of Native Americans]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Jaffee uses two images of Native Americans combined with primary text documents to challenge students to thnk visually as historians rather than merely to think visually.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=169</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty&amp;mdash;The Fugitive Slaves, c. 1862 ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson's painting of fugitive slaves helps address ways to teach a pivotal question in U.S. history: Did Lincoln free the slaves&amp;mdash;or did the slaves free themselves?]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=170</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[John Gast, American Progress, 1872]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian 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.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=180</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thomas Crawford, Statue of Freedom, 1855-63]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art historian Vivien Fryd explains how the Statue of Freedom, the bronze statue atop the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, D.C., was altered to accommodate the sectional and racial politics of antebellum America.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=185</link>        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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