1800 – 1848

Check back—we're adding new content all the time!

videos + essays

Over the next two years, Seeing America will grow to include 100 videos, 18 essays, quizzes, discussion questions and lesson plans.

Thomas Cole, <em>The Voyage of Life</em>
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life

Cole’s extraordinary series chronicles each stage of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age.

Rembrandt Peale, <em>Rubens Peale with a Geranium</em>
Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium

An unusual double portrait: a botanist and his geranium.