Painted after the end of World War I and amid pressure to "represent his race" as a Black man, Tanner brings biblical scenes into the modern world
Seeing America – Theme: America in the World
Ufer, a German immigrant to the United States, seeks an authentic American art in New Mexico on the heels of World War I and the influenza epidemic.
Walter Ufer, Hunger
Rolanda, a close friend of Frida Kahlo, explores her Mexican identity in the 1930s with surrealism and a volcano
Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
This manuscript contains about 180 illustrations of people, plants, and animals—including a unicorn
Codex Canadensis
One of the most famous landscape photographs showing the horrible aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg: Timothy O’Sullivan’s ...
Over the past 250 years, the American colonies have transitioned from being mere holdings of European superpowers, to being perhaps the most preeminent superpower of our own day.
America in the World
Sail, steam, cotton, and oil — the engines of the American economy.
Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
The Port of Havana, cigar shops, and Cuban independence
Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
The critics at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago noted: "American art has made something of itself."
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
A modernism emerges from tourism, boarding schools & indigenous traditions
The pueblo modernism of Ma Pe Wi
Perry's painting of the Battle of Lake Erie celebrates the U.S. victory in the War of 1812, but it doesn't depict the aftermath's devastating effects on Native Americans.
APUSH: KC-4.3.I.A.ii
APUSH: KC-4.3.I.A.ii
Teaching guide
Thomas Birch, Perry’s Victory on Lake ...
The Levy-Franks were a prosperous Jewish family in early 18th century New York. Their portraits help to reveal a closely-connected British Empire spanning the Atlantic. The Levy-Franks supplied the British during the Seven Years' War, carried goods on Caribbean trade routes, and possibly brought enslaved people to the Americas.
APUSH: KC-2.2.I.A, KC-2.2.I.B
APUSH: KC-2.2.I.A, KC-2.2.I.B
Teaching guide
Six Portraits of the Levy-Franks family
A Jewish family in New York and London during the French Indian Wars
A Jewish Family in Early New York
Among the earliest European representations of North America
Europe’s earliest views of America
Beyond the street of New York, Bellows grapples with the horrors of the First World War
Beyond New York, Bellows & World War ...
Sue Coe's Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait, 1990
An artist asks: war or healthcare?
The battle that turned the tide during the War of 1812
The battle that turned the War of ...
Finding heroism amidst one of the world's great environmental disasters.
A desert on fire, Salgado in Kuwait
Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.
Superman, WWII, Japanese Americans
How can we begin to correct the lies of history? Artist Kenseth Armstead suggests a poetic solution.
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