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Teaching with images

False, misleading, and unreliable images

Restoring meaning to Crow chiefs

Restoring meaning to Crow chiefs

By Dr. Steven Zucker, Wendy Red Star at Portland Art Museum

Red Star annotated photographs to restore dignity and context to government-issue photographs of Crow chiefs.

The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Benjamin West, <em>Penn’s Treaty with the Indians</em>

By Dr. Beth Harris, Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

A founding myth for Pennsylvania and for the United States

Spanish conquest and U.S. expansion

Spanish conquest and U.S. expansion

By Dr. Anna O. Marley, Dr. Steven Zucker

De Soto led hundreds of soldiers on the first European expedition into what became the United States.

Beyond New York, Bellows & World War I

Beyond New York, Bellows & World War I

By Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Beyond the street of New York, Bellows grapples with the horrors of the First World War

Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome

Erased from memory: the Severan Tondo

By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker

Rewriting history in ancient Rome.

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, <em>Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa</em>

By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker

Napoleon’s army encountered the plague in Jaffa, and requisitioned a mosque as a hospital.

Casta painting in the Spanish Americas

Casta painting in the Spanish Americas

By Dr. Beth Harris, Julie Wilson Frick, Denver Art Museum, Sabena Kull

These challenging paintings visually separate Indigenous Americans from the Spanish elite; most were exported.