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Smarthistory
Living in peace—predator and prey, and Native Americans and settler colonists—but for how long?
Teaching guide: Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom
A colorful perspective on agriculture, water, and pollution.
Teaching guide: Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams
A hopeful image vying for a future free of racism.
Teaching guide: Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
All teaching guides
Teaching guides: Politics and power
Kaphar’s painting uses defacement as a way of critiquing Andrew Jackson, and makes us consider the injustices of presidents past and present.
Teaching guide: Titus Kaphar, The Cost of ...
Pippin, like many other black Americans, fought bravely for democracy in World War I and yet there would be no real victory without winning the struggle for equality in the U.S.
Teaching guide: Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice
Rockwell's Rosie captured the power felt by the unprecedented number of women in the workforce during World War II.
Teaching guide: Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
Does the figure emerge from the flag, or does it imprison him?
Teaching guide: Benny Andrews, Flag Day
Who was Andy Warhol? What is Romanticism? Can abstract art mean something?
Modern Art in Europe and North America
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History of Global Architecture
The art and architecture produced from the early 1300s to the end of the 1700s laid the foundation for the world we live in now.
History of Western Art: Renaissance to Revolution, ...
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History of Western Art and Civilization: Prehistory ...
Long before our global world, works of art often demonstrate rich interaction across cultures.
Across cultures, an introduction
Across cultures
Learn about the geography of West Africa!
About West Africa
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Graduate students needed for Smarthistory “refresh” project
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Media workshop, August 7-9, 2019
This is a multimedia learning resource for American history and American art.