This companion site to a book of the same title from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) will serve many readers as well as the book itself. While the web site lacks the large-size, printed reproductions of artwork and introductory texts of the book, it nevertheless provides reasonable screen resolution images of all of the 225 works reproduced in the book. The site is organized into 16 chapters, including "From Distant Shores", which contains artwork documenting the immigrant experience, and “Toward the Millennium,” a collection of artwork created in the last 20 years of the twentieth century. In addition, the site links to SAAM's online permanent collection. This allows visitors to read caption information from the exhibition labels for each work of art, search on each artist's name to see if there is more of their work in SAAM's collection, use SAAM research databases, and even use the museum's innovative art search engine, “Ask Joan of Art.”

Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). Comprised of seventy digital prints made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943, this site reveals a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been viewed only through black-and-white images. These vivid scenes and portraits capture the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small town populations, the nation's subsequent economic recovery and industrial growth, and the country's great mobilization for World War II. While the site has few features beyond the photographs themselves, it nonetheless provides a unique visual perspective on one of the most significant eras in American history, and as such is a valuable tool for education and an effective springboard for historical discussion.

This small but fascinating site focuses on one soldier’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’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 “journal” was a sketchpad, and, during his two years in North Africa and Italy, Corporal Hurwitz drew and painted at every opportunity. Hurwitz’s pictures are accompanied by the artist’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

In recent decades, documenting the process of American urban deindustrialization has captured the interest of historians, archaeologists, city planners, sociologists, and of course, photographers. One of the most prominent photographic historians of the American ghetto is Camilo Jose Vergara, who has taken over 14,000 photos of decaying American cities from 1977 to the present day. This website brings collects and displays Vergara’s photographic record of the cities of Camden, New Jersey, Harlem, New York, and Richmond, California in exquisite geographic and visual detail. Vergara’s detailed introduction to this project offers a great deal in terms of historical context, and the essays that accompany each city’s section of the website similarly situate the individual urban experience within larger historical developments. Users can browse hundreds of well-preserved, high quality images of each city within a variety of categories that Vergara has identified as common elements shared by all American ghettoes. The strength of this site is in its profound visual rendering of change over time, by which users can get a visceral sense of often overlooked developments in some of America’s poorest urban areas.