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About Seeing America

What is Seeing America? We believe that historical works of art are important and engaging primary sources. Seeing America is a multimedia learning resource for American history that makes key works of art accessible for the American History and Socials Studies student. Seeing America is a free resource and includes no advertising.
Who created Seeing America? Seeing was created by Smarthistory together with curators and educators from 16 museums:
Where else can I access Seeing America?
How is Seeing America organized?
By theme:
Migration and settlement (coming soon)
Geography and environment (coming soon)
America and the world (coming soon)
When complete, this resource will include 100+ videos and essays, quizzes, discussion questions and lesson plans.
Who funded Seeing America? Seeing America has been funded by generous grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Walton Family Foundation.
Special thanks to the Seeing America team: Dr. Sarah Archino, Dr. Kelly Enright, Dr. Naraelle Hohensee, Dr. Virginia Spivey, and Dr. Bryan Zygmont; and our advisory committee: Sarah Alvarez, Steve DeBoer, Michael Jacobs, Sara Klein, Gideon MacKay, and JJ Rutherford.

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