Insights into American history

The first of its kind, Insights into American History shows students how to "read" and analyze over 140 photographs—both famous and uncelebrated—as important documentary sources. Using a case study approach, the text provides numerous opportunities for teachers and discussion leaders to challenge students to think about photographs as visual history.

Robert M. Levine was the Gabelli Senior Scholar in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Miami. He was the author of nearly two dozen books, including Windows on Latin America 1988, Images of History 1989, and Through the Lens of Charles DeForest Fredricks: Cuba in the 1850s 1990. Levine wrote and produced more than twenty original videotaped documentaries, four of which have been televised nationally on the History Channel.