Teaching with images False, misleading, and unreliable images 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. Learn more The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians By Dr. Beth Harris, Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts A founding myth for Pennsylvania and for the United States Learn more 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. Learn more 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 Learn more Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker Rewriting history in ancient Rome. Learn more Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker Napoleon’s army encountered the plague in Jaffa, and requisitioned a mosque as a hospital. Learn more 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. Learn more
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. Learn more
The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians By Dr. Beth Harris, Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts A founding myth for Pennsylvania and for the United States Learn more
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. Learn more
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 Learn more
Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker Rewriting history in ancient Rome. Learn more
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker Napoleon’s army encountered the plague in Jaffa, and requisitioned a mosque as a hospital. Learn more
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. Learn more
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