| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Picturing Modern America <http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/>. Created and maintained by the Center for Children and Technology, New York, N.Y., of the Education Development Center (Boston, Mass.). Reviewed June 28–July 14, 2005.
Many history educators by now feel they should use primary documents in their teaching and that the World Wide Web offers a trove of such materials. Less clear are issues of implementation and purpose: Which documents to use? How, and to what end? Picturing Modern America is a teaching resource that addresses these issues in useful, innovative ways. The site will help teachers and students to identify visual materials that are often overlooked in history education and to use them as springboards for developing historical thinking skills. While intended specifically for middle and high school classrooms, it may prove useful in college settings, too.	1
Picturing Modern America can be understood in part as a companion to the rich but often daunting array of online materials in the American Memory collections of the Library of Congress. The site guides students through preliminary investigations of key topics in U.S. history from 1880 to 1920, with small sets of images (mostly photographs) serving as the jumping-off point; at the conclusion of these initial queries and "historical thinking exercises," the user can then follow links to related materials in American Memory.	. . .

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