Help your students explore works of art as primary documents.
"Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? "
—Thomas Cole, "Essay on American Scenery" (1836)
Explore the diverse history of the United States through its art. Seeing America is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
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