Winslow
Homer, |
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Thomas
Hart Benton, |
 linked courses offered during spring semester 2006 |
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Karl
Bodmer, |
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 Movie Poster from Blackboard Jungle. |
linked courses offered during spring semester 2005 |
 George Catlin, Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe, on Horseback. 1835. |
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 Jacob Lawrence, Ironers, 1943. |
Students became historians who documented the emergence of modern American society through art, film, and music. |
 Postcard of the Main Street Viaduct and Ship Channel, Houston, Texas. c. 1915. |
Each student picked a person who came to Houston, interviewed them, and developed a series of web pages that documented their journey. |
Works Cited:
Benton,
Thomas Hart. Boomtown. 1928. Image Library: American Scene. University
of Southern California. 12 January 2006. <http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/
AmericanScene.html>
Bodmer,
Karl. "Scalp Dance of the Minatarres" [Hidatsa] from Reise in
das innere Nord-America
in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. Koblenz: 1839-41. Library of Congress.
8 September 2005.
<http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewis-landc.html>
Catlin, George.
Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe, on Horseback.
1835. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
20 January 2005.
<http://americanart.si.edu>
Homer, Winslow.
A Game of Croquet. 1866. Online Image. The Art Institute of Chicago.
8 August 2008. <http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/amer/citi/
object?id=44018&collcatid=2>
Lawrence,
Jacob. Ironers. 1943. Private Collection, Gwendolyn Knight
Lawrence. The Phillips Collection.
<http://www.phillipscollection.org/>
Movie Poster
Blackboard Jungle Movie Poster. MGM. 20 January 2005.
<http://amazing3rdplanet.com/pages/UntamedYouthPageOne.html>
Postcard of the Main Street Viaduct and Ship Channel, Houston, Texas. c. 1915. 20 January 2005. <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lcseiler/houdn2.htm>
