The Starr Center's second Roots of a Nation workshop, Picturing the Past, used the museums of Washington, DC to open new doors to teaching the history of the Civil War. Participants viewed and discussed paintings, monuments, lithographs, and other visual depictions of the conflict and its aftermath, and even tried their hand at designing their own Civil War monuments.
Please see below for some of the terrific classroom ideas that emerged from this workshop.
Huzzah!
Jill Ogline Titus
Associate Director, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
