Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.
The first deadline for public and private schools, public libraries and homeschooling consortiums to apply for the Picturing America package (printed images and lesson plans) has passed; a second will open in August of 2008. Individual homeschooling families and autodidacts, while not eligible, can take heart. Thanks to the generosity of the NEH, all 40 images are here for you, and each is accompanied by a link to its archived lesson plan at the Picturing America website.
The first deadline for public and private schools, public libraries and homeschooling consortiums to apply for the Picturing America package (printed images and lesson plans) has passed; a second will open in August of 2008. Individual homeschooling families and autodidacts, while not eligible, can take heart. Thanks to the generosity of the NEH, all 40 images are here for you, and each is accompanied by a link to its archived lesson plan at the Picturing America website.
- Pottery and Baskets, ca. 1100-ca. 1960Composite image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Humanities; used with permission
- Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, San Antonio, Texas, 1755Composite image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Humanities; used with permission
- Paul Revere, 1768Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; used with permission
- Silver of the 18th, 19th and 20th CenturiesComposite image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Humanities; used with permission
- The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931Art © Estate of Grant Wood / Licensed by VAGA, NY; used with permission
- George Washington (the Lansdowne portrait), 1796© 2008 Smithsonian Institution, Courtesy, National Portrait Gallery; used with permission
- Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851Photograph © 1992 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; used with permission
- Benjamin Franklin, 1862U.S. Senate Collection; used with permission
- The Oxbow, 1836Image © 1995 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; used with permission
- Last of the Mohicans, cover illustration, 1919Collection of the Brandywine River Museum; used with permission
- American Flamingo, 1838Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; used with permission
- Catlin Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa - Mandan, 1861-69Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; used with permission
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