This course is designed to familiarize students with recent scholarship addressing visual sources, with increasingly prevalent digital collections of visual materials, and with the variety of visual records found in archival and museum collections. The structure of the course will follow a chronology of American history from the colonial period to the 20th century. Students will build visual literacy and gain an understanding of various visual media, including paintings, prints, daguerreotypes, photographs, and advertisements, in order to explore how visual sources enrich historical scholarship. We will address archival techniques for cataloguing and preserving visual records. Throughout this course, students will evaluate how visual sources alter and augment historical interpretation of the American past.
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1614/MalinG572021.pdf
G57.2021
4.0
Both Archives and Public History
No
Fall
If the new curriculum is approved, this course will be offered in the spring semester.
Biannually
None