Teaching with images The pluralism of American identities An American Story By Dr. Beth Harris, Taylor L. Poulin The Wyeths have a long history of painting the American story Learn more A Jewish Family in Early New York By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art A Jewish family in New York and London during the French Indian Wars Learn more Daily life in 1820 Brooklyn By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Margaret C. Conrads This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism. Learn more Superman, WWII, Japanese Americans By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Sarah Newman, Smithsonian American Art Museum Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print. Learn more What's in a map? Reading the United “States" By Dr. Anne Showalter, Dr. Beth Harris Thinking about our history in a different way helps us rethink our present. Learn more A Muslim among the founding fathers By Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dr. Steven Zucker How a portrait of an African Muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums. Learn more A lost history of African Americans in NYC By Dr. Diana diZerega Wall, Dr. Steven Zucker The creation of a beloved landmark destroyed a thriving community of African Americans and Irish immigrants. Learn more Strange Worlds By Dr. Beth Harris, Sarah Alvarez Geller captures the tensions of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th-century United States. Learn more Nari Ward, We the People (black version) By Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dr. Steven Zucker Hundreds of shoelaces form just three words. Here, the artist takes an abstract idea and makes it immediate. Learn more Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America By Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo Using the language of advertising, Jaar conveys a political message about who “Americans” really are. Learn more
An American Story By Dr. Beth Harris, Taylor L. Poulin The Wyeths have a long history of painting the American story Learn more
A Jewish Family in Early New York By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art A Jewish family in New York and London during the French Indian Wars Learn more
Daily life in 1820 Brooklyn By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Margaret C. Conrads This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism. Learn more
Superman, WWII, Japanese Americans By Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Sarah Newman, Smithsonian American Art Museum Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print. Learn more
What's in a map? Reading the United “States" By Dr. Anne Showalter, Dr. Beth Harris Thinking about our history in a different way helps us rethink our present. Learn more
A Muslim among the founding fathers By Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dr. Steven Zucker How a portrait of an African Muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums. Learn more
A lost history of African Americans in NYC By Dr. Diana diZerega Wall, Dr. Steven Zucker The creation of a beloved landmark destroyed a thriving community of African Americans and Irish immigrants. Learn more
Strange Worlds By Dr. Beth Harris, Sarah Alvarez Geller captures the tensions of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th-century United States. Learn more
Nari Ward, We the People (black version) By Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dr. Steven Zucker Hundreds of shoelaces form just three words. Here, the artist takes an abstract idea and makes it immediate. Learn more
Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America By Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo Using the language of advertising, Jaar conveys a political message about who “Americans” really are. Learn more
