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National Day On Writing
What can your students say about a great work of art? Direct them to EDSITEment's
own online writing gallery and let their essays tell the world!
Learn how to analyze works of art using Picturing America
images with WNET's Director of Educational Development, Amy Herman and
ALA's Picturing
America for Public Libraries.
Featuring EDSITEment's
Literary
Glossary.
EDSITEment's history, partners, and content review process.
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Homer’s Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field
Winslow
Homer (1836 – 1910), The Veteran in a New Field, 1865.
Oil on canvas. 24 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. x 61.3 x 96.8 cm.). The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton
de Groot (1876 – 1967), 1967 (67.187.131). Image ©
1995 The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
How did Civil War soldiers and their torn country return to peace
after four years of fighting? In this
lesson students consider Civil War veterans' possible memories
and emotions as they returned to civilian jobs. Students study symbolism
in Winslow Homer's painting, The
Veteran in a New Field, and compare it to Timothy
O'Sullivan's photograph of the aftermath of a Civil War battlefield.
More,
including a Podcast!
Colonizing the Bay
 John
Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” was delivered
as a sermon aboard the Arabella, as the Puritans approached their
destination of Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Why would a large number
of English people leave their country and homes for a destination
far across the Atlantic Ocean? More
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November is Native American Heritage Month. This month EDSITEment also celebrates the recent five part PBS series We Shall Remain which was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. More . . .
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