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Angel Island Immigration Station Gallery Walk
Students use these images to explore the concept of borders as social, economic, and political boundaries, as well as geographic ones.
Farmworkers’ Movement Gallery Walk
Use these images of California farmworkers in the 1960s to facilitate a Big Paper activity.
Front Page News on August 15, 2014
To further explore the power of images and the editorial choices made by different news agencies, have students compare the images and headlines featured on the front pages of a number of newspapers from August 15, 2014.
Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell (1945)
This series of paintings by Norman Rockwell was inspired by President FDR's 1941 speech outlining four basic human freedoms for a post-war world.
For Freedoms: Four Freedoms by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur (2018)
This series of photographs are modern update to Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms created by the artists Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur.
Border Image Analysis
Use this handout to introduce students to the concept of borders through images.
Introducing Memorials and Monuments
Use these photographs of various monuments and memorials to get students thinking about the role and purpose of monuments in a society.
Apartheid Resistance Posters
These posters represent six distinct aspects of the anti-apartheid movement's struggle for democracy in South Africa during the 1980s.
Holocaust Memorials and Monuments
Explore images of memorials and monuments to the Holocaust located in Europe and the United States.
The Bear That Wasn't
Images from Frank Tashlin's children’s book The Bear that Wasn’t, used in Facing History's reading of the same name.
Teaching Mockingbird: Images
These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.