"Pictures have now become a necessity": The use of images in American history textbooks

Journal of American History

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1409-1424

  Masur, Louis P ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 33749865276     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2568088     Document Type: Article

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2. Clarence S. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings (New York, 1969), 53.
3. See also Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 (Boston, 1975);
4. Donald H. Cresswell, comp., The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints: A Checklist of 1765-1790 Graphics in the Library of Congress (Washington, 1975).
5. Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (New York, 1970), 279;
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13. Mary Beth Norton et al., A People & a Nation: A History of the United States (2 vols., Boston, 1994), I, 144.
14. Jay Fliegelman, Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, & the Culture of Performance (Stanford, 1993), 33;
15. Levine et al., Who Built America?, I, 103.
16. For John Trumbull, see Irma B. Jaffe, John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution (Boston, 1975);
17. Helen A. Cooper, ed., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, 1982).
18. For history painting as a genre, see William S. Ayres, ed., Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (New York, 1993);
19. William H. Gerdts and Mark Thistlethwaite, Grand Illusions: History Painting in America (Fort Worth, 1988);
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23. James West Davidson et al., Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (2 vols., New York, 1990), I, 193;
24. Bailyn et al., Great Republic, I, 254;
25. Faragher et al., Out of Many, I, 167;
26. Boyer et al., Enduring Vision, I, 185.
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28. Jules Prown, John Trumbull, Ibid., 50, 32.
29. Albert Boime, The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century (Washington, 1990), 21;
30. Matthew Baigell, "On the Margins of History," in Picturing History, ed. Ayres, 204.
31. for a discussion of the critical discourse on a single painting that foregrounds a black man, see Louis P. Masur, "Reading Watson and the Shark," New England Quarterly, 67 (Sept. 1994), 427-54.
32. John Ruskin, St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice (Orpington, 1877), v.
33. Levine et al., Who Built America?, I, 197;
34. Faragher et al., Out of Many, I, 333.
35. Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (New York, 1990), unpaginated caption following 146.
36. "A Typical Negro," Harper's Weekly, July 4, 1863, pp. 429-30.
37. On cartes de visite, see William C. Darrah, Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth-Century Photography (Gettysburg, 1981).
38. Thelam Golden, ed., Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (New York, 1994).
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40. John D. Morse, ed., Prints in and of America to 1850 (Charlottesville, 1970);
41. Boston Prints and Printmakers, 1670-1775 (Boston, 1973);
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47. For the first half of the nineteenth century, see Bryan Wolf, Romantic Re-Vison: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature (New Haven, 1982);
48. William Truettner and Alan Wallach, eds., Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (New Haven, 1994);
49. Elizabeth Johns, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life (New Haven, 1991);
50. Angela Miller, Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875 (Ithaca, 1993);
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52. William Truettner, ed., The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 (Washington, 1991);
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55. Dan Schiller, Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism (Philadelphia, 1981).
56. For the significance of illustrations in the abolitionist movement, see Elizabeth B. Clark, "'The Sacred Rights of the Weak': Pain, Sympathy, and the Culture of Individual Rights in Antebellum America," Journal of American History, 82 (Sept. 1995), 463-93.
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58. Harry T. Peters, Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People (Garden City, 1942);
59. Peter Marzio, The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-century America (Boston, 1979).
60. On photography in the nineteenth century, see Martha Sandweiss, ed., Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (Fort Worth, 1991);
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62. Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York, 1989), 294;
63. Alexander Gardner, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (2 vols., Washington, 1866).
64. Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital (Kansas City, 1995).
65. Alan Trachtenberg, "Ever - The Human Document," in America and Lewis Hine (New York, 1977), 133.
66. See, for example, James Guimond, American Photography and the American Dream (Chapel Hill, 1991);
67. Maren Stange, Symbols of an Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 (Cambridge, Mass., 1989);
68. William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America (Chicago, 1973);
69. Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan, eds., Documenting America, 1935-1943 (Berkeley, 1988).
70. William J. Mitchell, "When Is Seeing Believing?," Scientific American, 274 (Feb. 1994), 68-73.
71. Daniel Czitrom wrote chapters 17, 22-24, 27-28, and 31 in Faragher et al., Out of Many.
72. Levine et al., Who Built America?, I, 297;
73. James A. Henretta et al., America's History (2 vols., New York, 1993), I, 393;
74. Murrin et al., Liberty, Equality, Power, I, 559;
75. Joshua Freeman et al., Who Built America?, vol. 2: From the Gilded Age to the Present (New York, 1989), 396-405;
76. Henretta et al., America's History, II, 810-12;
77. Faragher et al., Out of Many, II, 777-78;
78. Davidson et al., Nation of Nations, II, 998-1002.