This video provides a model for how to use a work of art in your classroom.
Goals
to model a process for historical inquiry with works of art that
– promotes a questioning disposition
– validates emotional and sensorial ways of knowing
– reinforces the importance of context and chronology as anchors for historical understanding
– reflects on how knowledge is collectively built and shared over time
Go deeper
Downloadable, high-resolution images of this painting for teaching and learning
This painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
How Contemporary Artists Have Used “Washington Crossing the Delaware” to Challenge History
Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” through Conservators’ Eyes
Corey Kilgannon, “Crossing the Delaware, More Accurately,” New York Times (December 2011)
