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. This 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. The Picturing U.S. History site will also serve as a clearing house for teachers interested in incorporating visual documents into their U.S. history, American studies, American literature, or other humanities courses.

In November 2008, Peter C. Mancall (Unversity of Southern California) will lead a month-long forum on teaching Colonial America with images. Please select Forums on the left to sign up to participate.

This website is still in the prototype phase and will be expanded and updated over the coming months. We welcome your comments.