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From: Humanities
Date: 20070901
Author:Riechers, Maggie

"Listen my children and you shall hear, / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.'

Just as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow introduced generations of students to the story of the American Revolution using meter and rhyme, so can today's teachers use visual art to convey important lessons about American history and culture.

To this end, the National Endowment for the Humanities is piloting a program to bring highquality reproductions of forty works of American art into classrooms and libraries in every state of the union. Cosponsored by the American Library Association, Picturing America will survey a ...

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