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The Seeing America Project
Unit 6: Lesson 3
1800-1900- John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder
- Face to face with the voters: Bingham's Country Politician
- The Little Round House at the University of Alabama
- Thomas Crawford, George Washington Equestrian Monument
- The U.S. Civil War, sharpshooters, and Winslow Homer
- Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg, O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death
- Snakes and petticoats? Making sense of politics at the end of the Civil War
- Nast and Reconstruction, understanding a political cartoon final
- Robert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument
- Martyr or murderer? Hovenden's The Last Moments of John Brown
- Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause
- Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond's Robert E. Lee Monument
- Custer's Last Stand — from the Lakota perspective
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John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder
John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder, 1833, oil on canvas, 75.6 x 91.4 cm (Gilcrease Museum) Note: the Sac and Fox Nation changed the spelling of their name from the 19th-century Sauk.
A conversation with Laura F. Fry, Senior Curator and Curator of Art, Gilcrease Museum, and Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.
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