To illuminate history: making history picture-perfect.

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

Teaching can be improved dramatically if we use images creatively and in a way that was not possible until recently. As a student, I was fortunate to be in the classrooms of several extraordinary teachers who inspired with their words, stories, and insights, but I had to use my imagination to supply the visual content inherent in what they said, much as I did when reading. This was not a bad thing; I eventually wondered, however, whether it was something to build upon, not be satisfied with. At the start of my teaching career, several decades ago, I launched a collection of ...

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