American History and Visual Culture


General Works
Art Galleries Online
Advertising
American Revolution
Web Resources
Cartoons
Children
The Civil War
Elections
Environmentalism
International Influence on Art
Military
Native Americans
Pacific Northwest
Presidents
Race
Religion
The West
Whitehouse
Women
World War II


General Works

  • Art and the committed eye : the cultural functions of imagery. N72.S6L46 1996
  • Bound for glory : America in color, 1939-43 TR820.5 .B685 2004 Quarto
  • The Columbia companion to American history on film : how the movies have portrayed the American past. PN1995.9.U64 C65 2003
  • The eighties : images of America. Quarto; E839.V57 1992
  • Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture. Reference E169.12 .E49 2001
  • Framing America : a social history of American art. Quarto N6512 .P59 2002
  • Freedom : a history of US. E178 .H15 2003
  • Liberty and freedom. E179 .F538 2005
  • More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931 [videorecording] : 50 films / produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Media PN1993.5.U6 M6552 2004 4 videos
  • New muses : art in American culture, 1865-1920. ND210.M6
  • Painting the dark side : art and the Gothic imagination in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Burns. ND210 .B87 2004
  • Past imperfect : history according to the movies. PN1995.9.H5 P37 1996
  • Report of the Commission of Fine Arts. N6530 .D6A3 1944-48
  • St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. Reference E169.1 .S764 2000 4 vols.



    Art Galleries Online

  • African American Art on the Internet
  • American Art in Context: From the San Diego Museum of Art
  • Art Institute of Chicago: American Collection
  • Autry National Center: Online Collections
  • Bettmann archives
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Collection
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Smithsonian Archives of American Art
  • Whitney Museum of American Art



    Advertising

  • Advertising to the American woman, 1900-1999. Quarto HF5813.U6 H55 2002
  • Art archives; over 500 line illustrations representing historic periods, events, activities, persons and places, for unrestricted reproduction in advertising and publishing. Quarto; NK1115.C6
  • Coke goes to war. HF6161.B3 W79 1996
  • Handbook of early American advertising art. Quarto; NC997.H58 1953
  • Soap, sex, and cigarettes : a cultural history of American advertising. HF5813.U6 S55 1998



    American Revolution

  • Liberty! : the American Revolution. Quarto; E208 .F594 1997
  • Blake's "America, a prophecy" ; and, "Europe, a prophecy" : facsimile reproductions of two illuminated books : with 35 plates in full color Quarto; NE642.B5A4 1983


    Cartoons
  • The 1970s, best political cartoons of the decade. D849.5.N56
  • Abortion. HQ767 .A153 2003
  • Abraham Lincoln. E457.3.S51
  • Among the folks in history. NC1429 .W553
  • A Cartoon history of United States foreign policy, 1776-1976 / by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association. E183.9.C37
  • Cartooning Washington : one hundred years of cartoon art in the Evergreen State. Quarto F891.C34 1989
  • Censorship. PN4745 .C45 2003
  • A century of political cartoons; caricature in the United States from 1800 to 1900. E178.4.N47
  • The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg. NC1428.N47 T66 2005
  • A history of American graphic humor. NC1420.M8 Quarto
  • Illegal immigration. JV6483 .I544 2003
  • The Pulitzer prize story; news stories, editorials, cartoons, and pictures from the Pulitzer prize collection at Columbia University. PS647.N4H6
  • Terrorism. HV6432 .T443 2003
  • The timber beast : a collection of cartoons and how they originated. SD538.D85
  • The ungentlemanly art; a history of American political cartoons. E178.4.H46 1968
  • Up front; text and pictures. D745.2.M34


    Web Resources
  • American Political Prints
  • Baldy editorial cartoons
  • Civil War cartoons
  • Herblock's history: From the crash to the millennium
  • Historical Graphics Gallery
  • Humor's edge:Cartoons by Ann Telnae


    Children
  • The American pictorial primer : originally published about 1845 and now reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Huntington Library. PE1119.A1 A511 1970
  • America's children : picturing childhood from early America to the present. Quarto HQ792.U5 A545 2003
  • Children of the Depression. HQ792.U5 C434 2001 Quarto


    The Civil War
  • The American heritage century collection of Civil War art. Folio E468.7.A58
  • The American heritage picture history of the Civil War. E468.7.A6 3 vols.
  • Brady's Civil War. Quarto; E468.7 .G25 2000b
  • The Civil War. E468.C6 2 vols.
  • The Civil War : an illustrated history / narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary filmscript by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. E468.7.W26 1992
  • Civil War in pictures. E468.7.P7 1955b
  • Fighting for time. Quarto; E468.7.F53 1983
  • Harper's pictorial history of the civil war. Special Collections E468.7.G94
  • Mr. Lincoln's camera man, Mathew B. Brady, Quarto; E457.6.P55 1970
  • The photographic history of the civil war. E468.7.M64 10 vols.
  • Images from the storm : 300 Civil War images by the author of Eye of the storm. E468.7 .S769 2001
  • Shadows of the storm. Quarto; E468.7S5


    Elections
  • Hats in the ring : an illustrated history of American presidential campaigns. E176.1 .C793 2000


    Environmentalism
  • Green cultural studies : nature in film, novel, and theory. PN1995.9.N38 H63 1998
  • Green screen : environmentalism and Hollywood cinema. PN1995.9.N38 I547 2000


    International Influence on Art
  • Socialism and American art in the light of European utopianism, Marxism, and anarchism. Off Site/Stacks. HX521.E35


    Military
  • American military patch guide. Reference; UC533 .M674 1997
  • A day in the life of the United States Armed Forces : photographed by 125 of the world's leading photojournalists on a single day, October 22, 2002. Quarto; UA23 .D39 2003
  • The conscientious objector [videorecording] / a documentary film by Terry Benedict.; Media; UB342.U5 C65 2004


    Native Americans
  • Cheyenne dog soldiers [computer file] : a ledgerbook history of coups and combat.
  • Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian. E77.5 .G53 1998
  • I will tell of my war story : a pictorial account of the Nez Perce War. E83.877 .T56 2000
  • Into the fray : the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2005. N6538.A4 I58 2005
  • North American Indian art / David W. Penney. E98.A7 P36 2004
  • The Plains Indian photographs of Edward S. Curtis. E78.G73 C874 2001
  • In a sacred manner we live : photographs of the North American Indian. Quarto; E77.5.C8 1994
  • Invisible natives : myth and identity in the American western. PN1995.9.I48 P69 2002
  • Sun dogs & eagle down : the Indian paintings of Bill Holm. ND237.H66948 B76 2000
  • Women and warriors of the plains : the pioneer photography of Julia E. Tuell. E99.C53 A23 2000


    Pacific Northwest
  • Art of the Pacific Northwest: from the 1930s to the present. N6535.P67S58 1974
  • Extending the artist's hand : contemporary sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry Quarto NB235.W35 A53 2004
  • John Cole : the enduring northwest landscape. N6537.C5927 A4 2003
  • A northwest rail pictorial. Quarto TF23.7 .W55 1983
  • Railscapes : a Northern Pacific brasspounder's album. TF23 .F73 2003
  • Walla Walla--her historic homes. F899.W3A52 1991 3 vols.
  • Washington : the spirit of the land. Quarto F895 .M37 1999


    Presidents
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt. E807.F736 1990
  • Give 'em hell, Harry! [videorecording]. Media E814 .G59 1986
  • Homes of the American Presidents. Quarto E176.1.J65
  • Lincoln in caricature; a historical collection, with descriptive and biographical commentaries. E457.63.W752 1953
  • Pictorial history of American Presidents E176.1.D9
  • The Zapruder film : reframing JFK's assassination. E842.9 .W765 2003


    Race
  • 12 million black voices. E185.86.A13 1988
  • African American art and artists. N6538.N5 L38 2003
  • Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists. N6538.N5 F27 2005
  • Popular eugenics : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s. HQ755.5.U5 P66 2006
  • With other eyes : looking at race and gender in visual culture / Lisa Bloom, editor. N72.F45 W57 1999


    Religion
  • The gift to be simple : life in Amish country. F157.L2 C548 2001
  • The hand and the spirit; religious art in America, 1700-1900. N7903.D5
  • Images of mission : Seventh-day Adventists, people of faith, love, courage, and hope.Quarto BX6153.4.I42 1995
  • The Mormon graphic image, 1834-1914 : cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations. Quarto BX8638.B86 1983
  • Never on Shabbas! Favorites from "Dayenu," America's most popular Jewish cartoon. NC1429.L45 A53
  • The Mission : inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Quarto BX8695 .S6 1995
  • The Scopes trial : a photographic history. KF224.S3 C38 2000
  • The Shaker image. BX9766.S5
  • The visual arts and Christianity in America : the colonial period through the nineteenth century. BV153.U6D55 1984


    The West
  • The America's wilderness / the photographs of Ansel Adams with the writings of John Muir Quarto; TR660 .A2923 1997
  • Cowboys as cold warriors : the Western and U.S. history. PN1995.9.W4 C65 2004
  • Discovered lands, invented pasts : transforming visions of the American West. N8214.5.U6 D57 1992
  • Men of the West : life on the American frontier. F596 .L85 2004
  • River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west. TR849.M87 S55 2003
  • The romantic West, 1789-1850. Quarto N6450.K413
  • Sam Peckinpah's West : new perspectives. PN1998.3.P43 S26 2003
  • Winning the Wild West : the epic saga of the American frontier, 1800-1899. F591 .S6448 2002


    Whitehouse
  • Entertaining in the White House. TX731.S53
  • Forty-two years in the White House. E176.H78
  • Inside history of the White House; the complete history of the domestic and official life in Washington of the nation's presidents and their families. F204.W5W7
  • A tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Quarto F204.W5W73
  • Upon these grounds [videorecording] : exploring the White House garden. Media SB453.2.W35 U68 1997
  • The White House and its thirty-two families. Quarto F204.W5J4
  • The White House in picture and story. F204.W5L5


    Women
  • The dream beside me : the movies and the children of the Forties. PN1995.9.W6W5
  • I dwell in possibility : women build a nation, 1600-1920. Quarto; HQ1410 .L83 2001
  • The educated woman in cartoon and caption. NC1429.C59 A45
  • Peckinpah's women : a reappraisal of the portrayal of women in the period Westerns of Sam Peckinpah. PN1998.3.P43 M47 2001
  • Side-by-side : a photographic history of American women in war. UB418.W65 L49 1999
  • Women & work : in their own words. HD6095.W6727 1994


    World War II
  • The American heritage picture history of World War II . Quarto D743.2.S8 3 vols.
  • Battle stations! Your Navy in action; a photographic epic of the naval operations of World War II told by the great admirals who sailed the fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland Sea. D773.B37
  • The censored war : American visual experience during World War Two. D810.P7U47 1993
  • Collier's photographic history of world war II; action and events in all theaters recorded by camera and arranged in sequence. Folio D743.2.C64 1946
  • The decline and fall of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan : a pictorial history of the final days of World War II. D755.7.D613 1982
  • Diary of U. S. participation in World War II. Quarto D769.15.T54 1950
  • The road to victory, a history of Hampton roads port of embarkation in World War II. D810.T8W5 2 vols
  • Pictorial history of the second world war, a photographic record of all theaters of action chronologically arranged. D743.2.P5
  • World War II; a photographic record of the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day. D743.2.M29