Teach with Smarthistory

Using our videos in your course

Smarthistory was created to better engage our students in their Art History survey courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology - specifically two courses - Survey of Western Civilization and Art from Giotto through David, and Modern Art, from David to  Dali. We hope you'll find it useful for your students as well. We have taught these courses both online and in the classroom, and have found Smarthistory to be a useful resource in both cases. We started teaching art history online many years ago, and began teaching without the survey textbook recently. We use smarthistory combined with other web resources. Every semester, we are surprised by the overwhelmingly positive student responses to our videos. We are convinced that using multimedia helps students with different learning styles to better understand the material.

Feel free to embed our videos or link to our videos in your course website or blog. Many videos are also on our YouTube channel or on Vimeo (where you can grab an embed code). You can also download individual videos from the "Videos by Location" section of the site (first click "watch") or you can subscribe to Smarthistory in iTunes.

Is there art beyond Europe?

We know non-western art is the weakest part of Smarthistory, and we are actively working to remedy this. We want to be sure that we do justice to art history outside of our own areas of expertise, so we are actively seeking editors and contributors. Drop us an email if you're interested. 

What do you need? 

We'd like to know how Smarthistory can better serve you and your students. We're also interested in success stories. Drop us an email about those too.