US History in 15 Photographs

Rebecca S. Wingo is Director of Public History and Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati, USA. A settler scholar of the Indigenous and American Wests, her work examines the use of photography as a tool of settler colonialism.Lauren Tilton is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at University of Richmond, USA, where she also directs the Distant Viewing Lab. Her research focuses on analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

“Brilliantly curated, this volume brings together some of the leading historians of race, gender, labor, and empire to explore U.S. history through the lens of photography. Richly illustrated and intellectually engaging, it offers students a compelling new way to study the past.”

• Introduction, Rebecca S. Wingo & Lauren TiltonChapter 1, Veiled History: Confederate Memorialization and the Politics of Race and Place after Emancipation, Julian HayterChapter 2, Regarding Sovereign History as Incomplete: The Cherokee Outlet Land Opening Photographs, Laura WexlerChapter 3, Owned to Landowner: Black Homesteaders in the WestJacob K. FriefeldChapter 4, Illuminating the Kodak Girl: Style and Marketing in the Gilded Age, Shannon PerichChapter 5, Native American Women & the Politics of Portraiture at the Turn of the 20th Century, Cathleen CahillChapter 6, The Interwar Period (1918-1939): Internationalism in the Pacific, Courtney SatoChapter 7, Complicating the Legacy of Dorothea Lange’s Photography, Linda GordonChapter 8, Framing a Fractured System: The Bracero Program through Leonard Nadel’s Lens, Mireya LozaChapter 9, Race and the Space Race: Cold War Computing at NASA, Nabeel Siddiqui & Thomas HaighChapter 10, Tear Down, Rise Up: Redevelopment and Revolts in American Cities, Ann Pfau, David Hochfelder, & Stacy SewellChapter 11, They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, the Brookside Coal Strike, and the Forgotten History of the Working Class, Grace HaleChapter 12, “Very Strong Women You Don’t Mess With”: The Section 504 Disability Rights Protest, Scot DanforthChapter 13, Documerica: Picturing Pollution in the 1970s, Lauren Tilton & Mia LazarChapter 14, The Enola Gay and the Culture Wars, Rebecca S. WingoChapter 15, Selfie as Self-Love: Coyote Park’s Decolonizing of Photography, Ace Lehner