Access to the Internet has transformed my perception of the value of visual images to understanding history, and also to teaching the subject.
Through a resource like Google Images, it is now easy to find depictions of any era, topic or theme, with a wealth and variety that would have been quite unobtainable even through the world’s best libraries. Such images are easily downloaded, and can be instantly used in blog posts, or in power point presentations for classes. If you have followed my posts at Anxious Bench over the past couple of years, you will see how much I have tried to deploy such visual resources.
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