{"id":758,"date":"2009-11-24T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:19:57","slug":"picturing-america-viewing-the-civil-war-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/24\/picturing-america-viewing-the-civil-war-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturing America: Viewing the Civil War Through Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/The_Veteran_in_a_New_Field.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Veteran in a New Field&quot; by Winslow  Homer\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picturingamerica.neh.gov\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Picturing America<\/a>, in an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings examples from the many different genres of American art into the classroom. The program provides new and interesting pathways for students to understand American history. In addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/picturingamerica.neh.gov\/about.php?subPage=about_guide\" target=\"_blank\">resource book<\/a>, the website also offers several <a href=\"http:\/\/picturingamerica.neh.gov\/about.php?subPage=about_ad_res\" target=\"_blank\">additional resources <\/a>for teachers looking to incorporate the program into their lesson plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One of the lesson plans available, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=803\" target=\"_blank\">Homer\u2019s Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field<\/a>,\u201d draws on both visual and written primary sources. Aimed at those in middle school (grades six through eight), the first activity has students compare and contrast Winslow Homer\u2019s painting, <em>The Veteran in a New Field<\/em>, with Timothy O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s photograph, <em>A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg 1863<\/em>. The second has students read a selection from Civil War Captain James Wren\u2019s diary concerning his experience at the Second Battle of Bull Run\/Battle of Second Manassas. Finally, the third encourages students to make connections between all three activities, asking what the anonymous veteran in Homer\u2019s painting might be thinking and why. The activities are easily adaptable to individual classroom needs and are creative enough to capture students\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picturing America, in an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings examples from the many different genres of American art into the classroom. The program provides new and interesting pathways for students to understand American history. In addition to the resource book, the website also offers several additional resources for teachers looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,82],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-lesson-plans","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}