Photographs are more than just illustrations of a moment in time, they offer a powerful way to interpret and understand the past like no other historical source can. U.S. History in 15 Photographs introduces this power through 15 iconic and lesser-known photographs representing key eras in American History. Taking the reader from Reconstruction and Westward Expansion, to the Roaring Twenties and the World Wars, right up to Modern American Culture, it offers a refreshing, visual account of American history.
This volume reorients photography as a major source for understanding the past, expanding not only the stories that we tell, but the way we tell them. Teaching students how to understand, contextualize, and interpret historic photography, U.S. History in 15 Photographs centers diverse stories about the American experience by exploring topics around race, class, gender, disability, the environment, and social justice.
The scholars who contributed to this volume show that photographs are more just illustrations from the past, but foundational sources with surprising revelations about the past.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- There’s More to It Than Meets the Eye By Rebecca S. Wingo and Lauren Tilton
- Reading Photographs Like a Historian By Rebecca S. Wingo and Lauren Tilton
- 1 Veiled History: Confederate Memorialization and the Politics of Race and Place after Emancipation By Julian Maxwell Hayter
- 2 Regarding Sovereign History as Incomplete: The Cherokee Outlet Land Opening Photographs By Laura Wexler
- 3 Owned to Landowner: Black Homesteaders in the West By Jacob K. Friefeld
- 4 Illuminating the Kodak Girl: Style and Marketing in the Gilded Age By Shannon Perich
- 5 Native American Women and the Politics of Portraiture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Cathleen D. Cahill
- 6 The Interwar Period (1918–39): Internationalism in the Pacific By Courtney Sato
- 7 Complicating the Legacy of Dorothea Lange’s Photography By Linda Gordon
- 8 Framing a Fractured System: The Bracero Program through Leonard Nadel’s Lens By Mireya Loza
- 9 Race and the Space Race: Cold War Computing at NASA By Nabeel Siddiqui and Thomas Haigh
- 10 Tear Down, Rise Up: Redevelopment and Revolts in American Cities By Ann Pfau, David Hochfelder,and Stacy Sewell
- 11 They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, the Brookside Coal Strike, and the Forgotten History of the Working Class By Grace Elizabeth Hale
- 12 “Very Strong Women You Don’t Mess With”: The Section 504 Disability Rights Protest By Scot Danforth
- 13 Documerica: Picturing Pollution in the 1970s By Lauren Tilton and Mia Lazar
- 14 The Enola Gay and the Culture Wars By Rebecca S. Wingo
- 15 Selfie as Self-Love: Coyote Park’s Decolonizing of Photography By Ace Lehner
- Works Cited
- Index
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