National Endowment for the Humanites Picturing America Homepage
You can find basic information about the NEH's Picturing America program, including all of the images used in the project.
Edsitement
Edsitement is a website created by the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to help teachers integrate the humanites into their classrooms.
The Art Institute of Chicago
The AIC website provides information about the museum, online resources for teachers, and images and information for many items in their collection. To see the images used during the Picturing America Conference, click here.
The Library of Congress American Memory Homepage
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. During the Picturing America conference, Dr. Martha Sandweiss showed various images of "Migrant Mother" housed at the Library of Congress and available at the American Memory Website. For specific information and images of "Migrant Mother", click here and watch the video of Dr. Sandweiss' lecture (coming soon).
Picturing U.S. History
Picturing United States History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence is a digital project based on the belief that visual materials are vital to understanding the American past. The website provides online "Lessons in Looking," a guide to Web resources, forums, essays, reviews, and classroom activities to help teachers incorporate visual evidence into their classrooms.
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