Speeches Audio Gallery - 0 views
Spatial History Project - 10 views
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views
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The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
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in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
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The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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NYPL Digital Gallery - 6 views
Thames Water - Photo gallery - 3 views
Shmoop - U.S. History - 15 views
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Pictorial Study Guides for American History
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These fellows presented their online study resource - which includes, introductions, lesson plans, timelines, fun facts, summaries and test reviews, and a large image gallery sorted by time period - at a conference I attended in Pasadena last Spring. I think it is better for High School teachers and students. I teach 8th grade and use it mostly for my own edification.
vkmag.com >> Most Famous Men on One Photo - 13 views
Inca trail and machu picchu virtual tour - 11 views
ARC Galleries - 4 views
Welcome to the World Press Photo Contest Archive - 3 views
Google Maps with Street View - 7 views
British Museum - Room 18: Greece: Parthenon - 10 views
Maps - 9 views
Manufacturing Pasts - 8 views
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