Teaching guides: Migration and Settlement

Help your students explore works of art as primary documents.

People were here; people came here; people moved around here. The history of the United States is a long and continuous tale of movement.

Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves (1862)

Teaching guide: Eastman Johnson, <em>A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves</em>

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One artist's account of a daring act.

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Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (1771-72)

Teaching guide<br>Benjamin West, <em>Penn’s Treaty with the Indians</em>

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A history that's part fact and part myth.

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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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Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves (1862)

Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (1771-72)

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takes on racism against Asian-Americans

Diary: December 12, 1941