The We the People Bookshelf at EDSITEment
EDSITEment and the National
Endowment for the Humanities, offers resources to help libraries apply
for and use their We the People Bookshelf collections.
2009-2010: Picturing America
The "Picturing America" Bookshelf Theme
The We
the People "Picturing
America" Bookshelf is the literary complement of NEH's
Picturing AmericaSM visual arts
project. Instead of paint, marble, silver, or glass, words are the media
used to portray significant themes in American history and culture. Readers
are invited to steer their way across the continent by river with Lewis
and Clark in 1802, travel the railroad with Robert Lewis Stevenson in
1879, or drive along the open highways with John Steinbeck and his dog
Charley in 1960. Through the life and poetry of Walt Whitman emerge powerful
images of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln; through the life and lens
of Dorothea Lange we witness the impersonal forces and human faces of
the Depression.
Click here for more information
about the "Picturing America" Bookshelf, including guidelines and access
to the simple online application.
The Books and Resources
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9-12—
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—For Readers
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