Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Postcards From the Southwest
The Southwest region of the United States is filled with beautiful landscapes and marvelous cities. Use this site to see and learn about some of the wonders of the Southwest. You'll look at postcards from an imaginary trip. Then you can...
Library of Congress
Loc: Travels in America 1750 1920
A collection of narratives by Americans and foreigners telling of their travels in America. Information about the people, the landscapes and the times.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: William Merritt Chase
Web Museum profiles the American painter William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) and presents nine examples of his work.
American Public Media
American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
Library of Congress
Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright
Rich with drawings, photographs, and text, this site from the Library of Congress is an online exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas for a new American landscape and the place of architecture in it.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Gregory Gillespie
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Gregory Gillespie in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Other
American Society of Landscape Architects: The Roof Is Growing! [Pdf]
This Teacher's Guide explains what a green roof is, how they are made, and why a green roof is beneficial.
Digital History
Digital History: The Artist in American Society
See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Is Glacial Erosion?
An overview of the formation and existence of glaciers, and the effects of their movement.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Glacier Slide
Students describe how a glacier carves land and label the characteristics formed by the glacier's movement.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Albert Bierstadt
Biographical account covers the life and career of Albert Bierstadt, a German-American landscape painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Winslow Homer
Biographical profile of Homer Winslow, 19th-century American landscape painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Thomas Doughty
Biographical account covers the life and career of Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter who was associated with the Hudson River School.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: George Inness
Biographical account covers the life and career of George Inness, American landscape painter and a member of the Hudson River School.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Thomas Cole
Profiles the life and career of Thomas Cole, an Anglo-American landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River School.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Sheeler: American Landscape [Pdf]
Information about and analysis of a characteristic composition by Charles Sheeler.
University of Minnesota
Catalog Raisonne of the American Landscape Painter Gilbert Munger
View a painting of the Truckee River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Library of Congress
Loc: Map Collections 1500 2002
This collection provides maps dating back to 1500 up to the present. The collection includes: cities, towns, discovery and exploration, conservation and environment, military battles, cultural landscapes, transportation, communication,...
PBS
Pbs: Craft in America
An interesting look at how all of us are somehow connected to handmade crafts. Explore the idea of folk art and fine crafts through three major themes: memory, landscape, and community.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a companion to a 2006 exhibit of the works of American artist Andrew Wyeth, who died in January 2009. Features include a biography, overview of the exhibit, a five part podcast from a museum curator,...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Bierstadt: Looking Down Yosemite Valley [Pdf]
Information and analysis of a characteristic western landscape by Bierstadt communicates the essential qualities of his work.
Black Past
Black Past: Grafton Tyler Brown (1841 1918)
Learn about Grafton Tyler Brown, the most successful African American artist in the 19th Century west, who lived his adult life as a white man.
Other
Grandma Moses: Reflections of America
An essay about Grandma Moses and her apotheosis as an artist.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Hudson River School
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Hudson River School.