Getting Started
Introduction
Questions to Ask
1. What is an image?
2. What is the meaning of an image?
3. How was the image made?
4. What are the social conditions of the use of the image?
5. How do images function as symbols?
Resources
Sample Analysis: Khiva, Uzebekistan map
Annotated Bibliography
Images Online
You Be the Historian!
About the Author
Credits
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