Historical pictures

Pictures hold something truly special—a speck of time that once was and shall never be again. They’re the closest thing we have to a time machine, allowing us to glimpse through a window of film and into the past.

There’s a camaraderie amongst circus performers. Not only do you have the same job, but you’re on the road together for months out of the year.

Historians have offered vastly different interpretations of the origins of the Cold War over the past 5 decades. Few historical events have been subject to such an array of revisionist and neo-revisionist accounts. In this lesson, students enter the fray through exploring a variety of documents highlighting various issues and perspectives that led to the Cold War and address the question: Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War, the United States or the Soviet Union? [All files…

Different perspectives from the historical and modern era that you may have not seen.

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In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

You can barely recognize Southeast Asia’s biggest country.

Mathematician Margaret Hamilton

Social History, Politics, Asia, The Partition of India and Pakistan, pic: 1947, Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp