Author: Beth and Steven

Founders, and Executive Directors, Smarthistory

Founders, and Executive Directors, Smarthistory

How Smarthistory stacks up (and why museums should care about YouTube)

Beth and Steven publish an article on the imperative of teaching art history (2016)

Smarthistory.org is back!

The Exhibition Room_at Somerset House by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin 1800.

Smarthistory in 2015—more than 13 million views

Smarthistory

Reconstruction drawing of Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian palace, by James Fergusson for Sir Henry Layard, published in 1853. The columns depicted here were never found. The reconstruction is clearly influenced by what was known at that time of Greco-Roman architecture and by John Martin's Fall of Nineveh (1829).

Archaeological Reconstructions, by Sebastian Hageneuer, M.A.

Using SmartHistory to Generate Good Conversations in the Art History Survey —by Karen Gonzalez Rice, Connecticut College

Teaching the Art History Survey Teaching with Smarthistory The Future of the Art History Textbook

Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa, Edo period, 19th century (Tokyo National Museum)

Freshman year jitters (as a professor)! (by Dr. Melody Rod-ari)

Manar-al-Athar — Free resource for the study of the Middle East (by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis)

Titian, Pastoral Concert, c. 1509, 105 x 137 cm (Louvre)

The dog days of summer—new essays and videos

new content

Beth in the Abbey of Fontenay

Just what is Smarthistory?