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Image as History
- Program 1: Surviving Conquest | (Non-Flash version)
- How has Ácoma pueblo accommodated change while maintaining a deep connection to the past?
- Program 3: Colonial Society | (Non-Flash version)
- What does Peale's portrait of the Cadwalader family suggest about eighteenth-century attitudes toward the family?
- Program 4: Stamp Act Cartoons | (Non-Flash version)
- How does the artist of a Stamp Act cartoon use symbolism and humor to deride Parliament?
- Program 6: Re-Mapping History | (Non-Flash version)
- Whose journey is represented in this map of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
- Program 9: Slave Culture | (Non-Flash version)
- What does Eastman Johnson's painting of fugitive slaves tell us about slave culture?
- Program 11: Civil War Photography | (Non-Flash version)
- Does this photograph of Gettysburg depict an actual battlefield scene, or did the photographer contrive it?
- Program 12: Reconstruction Cartoons | (Non-Flash version)
- What are the references employed by the cartoonist Thomas Nast in his cartoon, This is a White Man's Government?
- Program 15: The White City | (Non-Flash version)
- What vision of the future city did the World's Columbian Exposition present?
- Program 21: Depression Era Photography | (Non-Flash version)
- Arthur Rothstein's image of a steer skull seems straightforward, but it generated enormous controversy at the time. Can you imagine why?
You Decide
- Program 5: Jefferson or Hamilton?
- Who had the more enduring vision for the United States, Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton?
- Program 18: Wilderness Preservation?
- Should Roosevelt and Wilson have been more active in preserving the Hetch Hetchy wilderness from development?
- Program 19: Washington or Du Bois?
- Who had the better vision for improving the conditions of African Americans in the early 1900s, Booker T. Washington or W. E. B. Du Bois?
- Program 20: The Roaring Twenties?
- How would you describe the 1920s? Did they "Roar" or was it just a big "Yawn?"
- Program 22: Japanese American Internment?
- Was the wartime internment of Japanese Americans appropriate?
- Program 23: The Atom Bomb?
- Was President Truman correct in his decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- Program 24: The Women's Movement?
- Did the feminist movement improve American women's lives?
Interactive Map
- Program 7: The Transportation Revolution | (Non-Flash version)
- What generalizations can you make about the timing and nature of developments in transportation in the early 1800s?
- Program 10: Slave and Free Soil | (Non-Flash version)
- How did the legal status of slavery change between the Revolution and the Civil War?
- Program 16: Mapping Conquest | (Non-Flash version)
- What can we learn about the processes of conquest from looking at maps of the West?
- Program 17: The Elections of 1896 and 1900 | (Non-Flash version)
- What can you discover in the geographical patterns that emerged in the elections of 1896 and 1900?
- Program 25: The New West | (Non-Flash version)
- Is the New West still a distinct region, or just another place in a homogeneous American landscape?
Interactive Timeline
- Program 2: Colonial Settlement | (Non-Flash version)
- What else was happening during the settlement of the thirteen colonies?
- Program 8: The Events of 1831 | (Non-Flash version)
- In what ways were some of the events of the year related?
- Program 13: To 1876 | (Non-Flash version)
- Here is an opportunity to review events from 1500-1876 and to see how the histories of Indians, Women, Labor, and African Americans are part of the American story.
- Program 14: Inventions, 1868-1898 | (Non-Flash version)
- How did technological innovation affect the United States after the Civil War?
- Program 26: 1876-1999 | (Non-Flash version)
- Here is an opportunity to review events from 1876-2000 and to see how the histories of Indians, Women, Labor, and African Americans continue to be part of the American story.
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