Just Another American Fable: Grant Wood

What did “free speech” mean before the Civil War...and what did it cost? Today, I'm exploring how Americans have debated the meaning of liberty through words, images, and even violence beginning with Samuel Jennings’s 1792 painting 'Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences' in 17 ...  Show more

In the final installment of our Impressionism primer, we meet the artists who broke away from light and surface to paint something deeper. From Van Gogh’s turbulent skies to Gauguin’s mythic Tahitian scenes, Cézanne’s geometric still lifes to Seurat’s scientific dots, the Post-Im ...  Show more

“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman Rockwell Whether arguing for soft versus hard taco shells or the Neo-Nazi right to march in Skokie, freedom of speech is a fundamental right we all enjoy as Americans. But it turns out ...  Show more

Listen to some sad stories of a man who died for his(almost) country, a school shooting of those with faith and other things that happened in 1999, and me read a poem on God and His America. StoryCorps: https://storycorps.org/stories/george-rincon-and-yolanda-reyes-170526/ Columb ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, George Washington is remembered in our history books, our nation's capital, and the values Americans still esteem today. He can often seem more marble than mortal. Woody Holton brings us the story of Washington wasn't always the man we cel ...  Show more

In this episode of Accessible Art History: The Podcast, I dive into Realism starting with one of the most iconic works of the age. 

For images and sources: https://www.accessiblearthistory.com/post/podcast-episode-34-the-stonebreakers-by-gustave-courbet ...