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Historical Literacies

Chapter 7: Developing Metaconceptual Understanding with Visual Evidence

Links to World Wide Web Resources

  • Has historical advertisements organized by category and time period

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/

  • Part of the Library of Congress, contains images and texts from the South

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

  • A good collection of World War I propaganda posters

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww1posters

  • Collection of hundreds of cartograms depicting various global statistics dealing with religion, economy, disease, etc.

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

  • Interactive map making website allowing the viewer to create population density maps and other types of maps

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/mapping/interactive-map/?ar_a=1

  • Historical ads indexed by year, product, company, etc.

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess

  • Picturing Modern America 1880-1920: Historical thinking exercises for middle and high school students. Includes several scaffolded exercises for analyzing photographs from the 1880s through the 1920s.

http://cct2.edc.org/PMA/

  • "Image Detective" An excellent interactive site that guides students through stages of analyzing historical photographs from the early 1900s.

http://cct2.edc.org/PMA/image_detective/

Downloadable instructional materials

  • Graphic organizer for supporting students' work with propaganda posters

Figure 7.1.docx