American
History Links - Photographic Images
This page
was created for students to use for a lesson on artist Barbara
Kruger - using historical and/or public domain photographs
- combining image with text.
1492:
An Ongoing Voyage An Ongoing Voyage addresses
such questions by examining the rich mixture of societies
coexisting in five areas of this hemisphere before European
arrival. From Library of Congress. See all of the online
Exhibits.
American
Cultural History - The 19th Century - Through the decades
- from Kingwood College Library
American
Cultural History of the 20th Century Kingwood College
Library. The purpose of these pages is to present a series of
web guides on the decades of the twentieth century.
American
Experience from PBS. See the American Presidents,
Biographies, the American Landscape, Pop Culture and
Technology
American
Art - Nineteenth Century American in Art and Literature -
National Gallery of Art.
American
History-- July 1942: United We Stand - Smithsonian
exhibit. In July 1942, magazines across the nation displayed
flags on their cover. July 1942
was a critical month on the American home front. Browse the
collection.
American
Memory - Historical Collection for the National Digital
Library See Today
in History
American
President: A Glorious Burden Find out just what the
president does - Scrolling timeline - objects belonging to the
presidents - and more.
America's
Library American Stories from the Library of Congress.
Meet famous Americans, jump back into the past, explore the
states, join America at play, sing and more! Site just for
kids to learn all about America.
Any
day today in History Gives a list of events that
occurred on any day of the year -in chorological order. See if
any thing "big" happened on the day you were born.
Archiving
Early America - Explore
the World of Early America - The
Real Face of George Washington - First
Thanksgiving - More "Firsts"
Best
of History Web Sites See
U.S, History links sorted by topics and periods.
Native American Voices - Digital History
Biography.com
Search over 25,000 lives past and present.
Biography
Maker - How to write a biography - is meant to inspire
lively story telling and vivid writing which will make your
readers want to know more about your subject.
Brief
Timeline of American Literature and Events, 1620-1920
Includes events in American history and literature, with links
to pages on literary movements. Site by Donna M. Campbell,
Gonzaga University
Colonial
Williamsburg Explore
and Learn Electronic
Fieldtrip available (must arrange). Explore
History
Compact
Histories: First Nations Gives brief history of many
Native American cultures - presented here to provide
information to those interested in learning more about the
First Nations (not an authoritative source - but good to get
your started)
Cultures
and History of America: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at
the
Library of Congress - includes a number of rare maps and
books, and is largely focused around the early years of
European
exploration and early Florida, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica.
David
Rumsey Map Collection - Contains to date over 8,000 maps
online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and
South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of
the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.
Digital
History Online textbook, handouts, exhibits,
documents - lesson ideas and more to make history more
exciting for students. See Ethnic
America. See Music
Resources available - Image
resources. See effective
ways to learn history (Art and music are not linked -
check back) Teachers and students may use images.
EASE
History: Historical Events, Campaign Ads, Core Values -
Experience Acceleration Support Environment (EASE) - a
display and browsing interface delivering over 600 short
videos and pictures on a variety of hot-button topics from the
last 100 years or so, relative to US history.
Educational
Links - design for San Gabriel Homeschoolers - See what
they have for History and Government.
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: American History Timeline with links to
articles and images.
First-Person
Narratives of the American South - from University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill - a number of helpful
digitized collections that document the Southern perspective
on a wide range of areas of American history and culture.
From
Revolution to Reconstruction: Outline in American History
Site has section on biographies
and presidents
Site has some illustrations within text.
History
Channel Find out what happened this day in history. View
online exhibits, View the History of the World Timeline
(select a century). More to see!
History
Matters - The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - for
high school and college teachers and students - gateway to web
resources - offers other useful materials for teaching U.S.
history.
History
of Costume Images from the book originally published
from 1861 to 1880 in Munich by the publishing firm of Braun
and Schneider. The original book,
Dover Publications has an excellent reproduction of the
printing entitled "Historic
Costume in Pictures" by Braun and Schneider. ISBN
#0-486-23150X. Site from Southern Illinois University.
See The
Costume Page if you are interested in learning more about
fashions.
History
of U.S. Armies in Uniform The American Soldier from 1747
to the Present. 250 year chronological history of U.S. Army
and U.S. Marine Corps uniforms in 1/6th, GI Joe scale.
History
Place - American History -- has information about the
American Revolutions, the Civil War, Twentieth Century Topics,
WWII, Viet Nan War and photos/portraits of the presidents.
Information on WWII in Europe and the Holocaust. Site does
have pop-up ads.
Journals
of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online - Site produced
at the University of Nebraska currently contains several
thousands pages of the explorers' journals as edited by
Professor Gary E. Moulton. Many extra features.
Key
to the US - A guide to Internet Resources for social
studies. National sites, State sites, American history and
General history. from Educonnect.com.
Library
of Congress Digital Collection Complete list in the
digital archives - showing sources for photographs, prints,
document, maps, video files and more.
Oakland
Museum - Gold Rush See art
of the gold rush Curriculum
materials
Outline
of American History - all text from Department of State
International Information
Picturing
Modern America, 1880-1920 - site contains a number of
interactive exercises (drawing on the vast collections of the
American Memory Project at the Library of Congress) that will
help deepen students' understanding of common topics in the
study of modern America from 1880 to 1920.
Popular
Songs in American History American Folk and Traditional
Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History
behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged by
time period.
Powers
of Persuasion: Poster Art from WWII
The
Price of Freedom: Americans at War - offers insights into
the various armed conflicts that have engulfed the country
from the Revolutionary War to the current conflict in Iraq.
Presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of American
History.
National
Museum of American History Encyclopedia
Smithsonian American History Timeline with links to
articles and images.
NMAH
- History Explorer - allows those surfing the Web to
browse through an interactive timeline of American history.
The interface is composed of items from the Museum's various
online collections, exhibitions and programs, such as Plymouth
Rock and a world map from 1511.
Remember
the Past- Imagine the Future Cybrary of the Holocaust.- A
place for students to express themselves through art and
poetry, share ideas, and help others learn. Here, we encourage
you to remember the past and imagine the future
World
History- Hyper History Online - has over 2000 files
relating to 3000 years of history. Check the section on Art -
A timeline appears with links to brief information about the
artist. Art, composers, literature, science and more. Search
by event - search by people - by history. Lots to see.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. from Seattle Times. Hs biography
and images.
They
Made America [requires Macromedia Flash Player] Innovators
and inventions contributing to the American Spirit - from PBS.
Sports:
Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers [requires Macromedia
Flash Player] American History told through sports - from
Smithsonian.
What
did you do in the War Grandma? An Oral History of
Rhode Island Women during World War II Written by students in
the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School
Women
in American History from Encyclopedia Britannica
Women
who Served More about women
in the military
For
materials that were published before March 1, 1989, the
absence of a copyright notice would, in many cases, place the
work in the public domain. Other works published before 1923
would also be in the public domain. Unpublished works created
before 1978 passed into the public domain on December 31,
2002. Images do not need to be registered to be considered
copyrighted. Once a work is in a fixed medium, it is
automatically copyrighted.
What
is Art in Public Domain? Read more on Public
Domain Interesting
chart
American
Memory for the Library of Congress
American
Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States. The site
offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100
historical collections.
See some
of the subjects or try the Collection
Finder. Many images NOT in public domain. Also see Library
of Congress Digital Collection
American
Library Association: Locating Public Domain Images - Gives
list sites that have good design standards and many freely
accessible images.
Page by Lorri Knight.
Clipart
ETC - Free clipart for teachers and students from
Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Over 25,000
peices.
Copyright
Free Photo Archive and Public Domain Images The
photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free
photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 GB of data. In
looking through the archive you will be able to browse pages
of photo thumbnails, which are linked to the full-size images.
Copyright
Free Photos - copyright free photo library for any use.
FeaturePics
Photography Directory- see Open Image Suite for images that can be used free for
educational purposes. Photographs on this site are not in
public domain.
Free
Foto.com largest collections of free photographs for
private non-commercial use on the Internet -- features 50 main
sections with over 1600 sub headings. animals, nature,
countries, transportation and so much more.
Geek
Philosopher - Free Stock Photos. Photos are free for
educational use. Images in public domain.
Images
in American history: A collection of over 500
public domain images of American Political History. Browse
the collection by era - or search for a specific image -
From College of New Jersey
Images
of fish and wild life
From Fish and wild Life Service -- hundreds
on images online, and thousands more to come...
Internet
Public Domain Index Public domain means that the
creator of the work, with no strings attached, has given up
all rights to the work. Check out some of these links to Images.
Jungle
Photos Hundreds of images and information pages on
animals, plants, people, scenery and more, from Central and
Southern Africa and Amazon Rainforest. Images are NOT in
public domain, but art teachers and students do have
permission to use images (educational - in class use).
Karen's
Whimsy Public Domain Images Scans by Karen Hatzigeorgiou -
engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old
books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly. See her
artwork - altered books and collage
LII
Librarians Index to the Internet: Photograph Collections
Sources listed are not all in public
domain. Check individual sites.
MorgueFile
- Public Image Reference Library - free image reference
material for use in all creative pursuits. Photos are not in
public domain - but teachers may use for educational purposes.
Nature
Gallery by Anne Foxworthy. Animals, Birds and more. These
images are not in the public domain but Ann has graciously
agreed to allow art teachers and students to use her images in
the creation works of art. Teachers may use her images in
PowerPoint presentations.
New
York Public Library Digital Gallery - new image database.
The Gallery provides access to over 275,000 searchable images
digitized from primary sources and printed rarities. You have
permission to use these in your classroom, but may not publish
them on your web sites.
North
Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
Search the Amazing Picture Machine - keywords assigned to the
photographs in The Amazing Picture Machine perform one of two
functions: They either directly describe the image or they are
words that are easily associated with the content of the
picture. See
what is available. Lesson plans on the site.
PhotoGraphic
Libraries The
stock images, film and photo archives listed provide a
creative source for television producers, advertising
agencies, libraries, education centers, picture researchers
and Photojournalist researching visual communications.
Pics4Learning.com
Free for educational purposes. Browse by topic. Animals.
architecture, countries and so many more. Site has lesson
plans, too, on how to use the images. See lesson
plan on Impressionism.
Public
Domain Resources See Web sites listed - Check Historical
Images.
Public
Domain Pictures - Links from Incredible Art Department
Public
Domain images – Follow the many links from Springfield
Township High School library
.
Lots of Photo
and Prints from the American Memory Collection
NOAA
Photo Library produced to help bring the work of one
of America's most remarkable Government agencies to the
American people -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Browse
the various photo albums
Training
Reference - Free Photos galleries contain original,
royalty free pictures and photos for use in training
materials, presentations and websites. Many images from
nature. Site by Steven Haines.
YotoPhoto
Search engine for free images and stock photos. Some of the
images are public domain and others have generous Creative
Commons (or similar) licensing. Nearly all photographs are
free for personal and commercial use with minimal
restrictions.
Links
Page for Public Domain Images (I have not checked these -
the first link on the page is for this page). Additional links
compiled by Chris Clementi.
Images,
Audio, and Video Clip - Public Domain image sources
compiled by Alix Peshette, Davis Joint Unified School
District. Some resources on the sites are from copyrighted
sources and must be acknowledged as such (sites allow Fair Use
for educational purposes).
MANY
more links for Public Domain Images - happy surfing.
Interested
in finding more free images? Check How
to Find Free & Low Cost Images on Almost any Subject.
