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Captured History Series

14 primary works • 14 total works
Inside the Situation Room: How a Photograph Showed America Defeating Osama bin Laden
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3.67 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
On-point historical photographs combined with stro…

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    Lunch Counter Sit-Ins: How Photographs Helped Foster Peaceful Civil Rights Protests
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    4.27     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    On point historical photographs combined with stro…

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    Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform
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    3.60     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "th…

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    Face of Freedom: How the Photos of Frederick Douglass Celebrated Racial Equality
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    3.57     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer, politica…

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    Death at Kent State: How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America
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    3.71     · 28 Ratings · 7 Reviews · 5 editions
    It didnt seem possible. Four college students shot…

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    Ground Zero: How a Photograph Sent a Message of Hope
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    3.80     · 20 Ratings · 9 Reviews · 4 editions
    The tragic events of September 11, 2001, sent shoc…

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    The Golden Spike: How a Photograph Celebrated the Transcontinental Railroad
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    3.62     · 8 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2015 · 4 editions
    In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad he…

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    Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty
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    4.15     · 26 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2015 · 4 editions
    At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edwa…

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    Assassination and Its Aftermath: How a Photograph Reassured a Shocked Nation
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    3.93     · 44 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions
    The world was shocked and frightened when Presiden…

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    Civil War Witness: Mathew Brady's Photos Reveal the Horrors of War
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    3.55     · 31 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions
    Mathew Brady recognized that the new art of photog…

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    Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
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    3.94     · 345 Ratings · 85 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
    Nine African American students made history when t…

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    Birmingham 1963: How a Photograph Rallied Civil Rights Support
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    4.32     · 71 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2010 · 8 editions
    In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on…

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    Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
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    3.97     · 124 Ratings · 36 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions
    In the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled…

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    Raising the Flag: How a Photograph Gave a Nation Hope in Wartime
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    3.85     · 40 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2011 · 9 editions
    By February 1945 the United States had been fighti…

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