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<title>Picturing US History: Reviews</title>
<description>This section contains concise reviews of recent books, online exhibits, and articles that provide new perspectives about visual culture in the past or insights about approaches to using archival images in the classroom. Reviews will be posted on a bimonthly basis. If you have resources to recommend for review, please contact us.</description>
<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/news.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[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[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[Ashcan Art in New York City]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian Robert Snyder reviews two exhibits of ashcan artists and their portrayal of early twentieth century urban life.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=22</link>        
       <pubDate> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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        <title><![CDATA[The Object of History]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this review of The Object of History a cooperative project between National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Catherine Whalen evaluates the website's success in helping students understand material culture objects as types of historical evidence.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=177</link>        
       <pubDate> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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        <title><![CDATA[W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Benjamin reviews this study by art historian Amy Helene Kirschke of images published in the NAACP journal the Crisis and the role such images played in developing the civil rights ideology from 1910 to 1934.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=94</link>        
       <pubDate> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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        <title><![CDATA[A New World: England's First View of America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Miller reviews a valuable resource for teaching visual literacy and engaging students in close analysis of early images of Native Americans.]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=186</link>        
       <pubDate> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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        <title><![CDATA[Retouching History]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The vast and ever-increasing quantities of material available on the American Civil War &amp;ndash; academic and popular, on-line and off-line, verbal and visual &amp;ndash; can be daunting, for scholars and students alike. The Retouching History website provides a focused and fascinating case study in how the Civil War is understood &amp;ndash; and misunderstood &amp;ndash; today. ]]></description>
		<link>http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=178</link>        
       <pubDate> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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