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Over the next two years, Seeing America will grow to include 100 videos, 18 essays, quizzes, discussion questions and lesson plans.
Robert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument
Unlike the other monuments on the Mall, this monument tells us virtually nothing about the man it commemorates.
William F. Cogswell, Queen Liliʻuokalani, and Maria Kealaulaokalani Lane Ena, ʻAhu ʻula (The Kalākaua Cape)
This royal portrait and cape convey the power of the Hawaiian monarchy and the tensions around the momentous historical events of 1898.
Francisco Oller, Still Life with Plantains and Bananas and Still Life with Coconuts
Oller inspires a sense of monumentality in his paintings of common fruits from Puerto Rico.
