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Unit 1: Teaching with images
Developing confidence
Modeling the method
It's not only about the American Revolution, Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip9:57
Cultures and slavery in the American south: a Face Jug from Edgefield county ✓ Check-ins5:34
Finding meaning in abstraction ✓ Check-ins4:52
How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history ✓ Check-ins9:53
Describing what you see: Sculpture (Henry Moore, Reclining Figure) ✓ Check-ins6:33
Go deeper: oppression and resistance
The triangle trade and the colonial table, sugar, tea, and slavery ✓ Check-ins5:33
An African muslim among the founding fathers, Charles Willson Peale’s Yarrow Mamout ✓ Check-ins5:03
Before the Civil War, the Mexican-American War as prelude ✓ Check-ins6:40
Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York ✓ Check-ins6:27- Cultures and slavery in the American south: a Face Jug from Edgefield county ✓ Check-ins5:34
Cotton, oil, and the economics of history ✓ Check-ins7:15
John Quincy Adams Ward, The Freedman ✓ Check-ins6:23
Martyr or murderer? Hovenden's The Last Moments of John Brown ✓ Check-ins6:10
An artifact of racism: a Connecticut Klan robe ✓ Check-ins6:23
A beacon of hope, Aaron Douglas's Aspiration ✓ Check-ins7:41
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*long version*) ✓ Check-ins11:25
Romare Bearden, Factory Workers ✓ Check-ins5:47
Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice ✓ Check-ins5:33
Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay ✓ Check-ins7:38
A Harlem street scene by Jacob Lawrence, Ambulance Call ✓ Check-ins4:34
Identity and civil rights in 1960s America ✓ Check-ins6:12
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat ✓ Check-ins6:18
History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781 ✓ Check-ins3:30
Reflecting on "We the People" ✓ Check-ins4:15
Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal ✓ Check-ins5:26
Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece ✓ Check-ins5:24
Go deeper: understanding museums
Go deeper: where are the women artists?
Go deeper: Indigenous peoples: art since 1800
Two sides of Lakota life on a beaded suitcase ✓ Check-ins6:27
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera ✓ Check-ins4:52
What's in a map? Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's "State Names" ✓ Check-ins5:03
Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe ✓ Check-ins6:20
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts ✓ Check-ins6:14
Go deeper: why is that art?
Go deeper: art and the environment
Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage ✓ Check-ins6:20
Saving Venice ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip5:52
Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands ✓ Check-ins6:09
Endangered coastlines and lifeways ✓ Check-ins2:55
Desert to Suburb, framing the American Dream ✓ Check-ins4:32
Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite, and the battle for National Parks ✓ Check-ins5:41
The landscape remade, Thiebaud's Ponds and Streams ✓ Check-ins4:48
Go deeper: false, misleading, and unreliable images
- Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation ✓ Check-ins6:41
The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians ✓ Check-ins4:12
Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion ✓ Check-ins4:56
Beyond New York — Bellows and World War I ✓ Check-ins4:53
The Severan Tondo: Damnatio Memoriae in ancient Rome ✓ Check-ins4:13
Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa ✓ Check-ins3:55
Casta paintings: constructing identity in Spanish colonial America ✓ Check-ins5:39
Go deeper: the pluralism of American identities
Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown ✓ Check-ins7:23
A Jewish family in early New York ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip4:33
Becoming a city: daily life in 1820, Brooklyn ✓ Check-ins6:16
Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941) ✓ Check-ins6:37- What's in a map? Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's "State Names" ✓ Check-ins5:03
- An African muslim among the founding fathers, Charles Willson Peale’s Yarrow Mamout ✓ Check-ins5:03
- Reflecting on "We the People" ✓ Check-ins4:15
- Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York ✓ Check-ins6:27
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