Teaching history through images. This is the objective of History through image a great site proposed by the meeting of national museums and the Ministries of Culture and Education. This beautiful site, which is aimed at everyone but which is aimed more particularly at teachers and their students, offers: deciphering historical images to better decipher history. A real treat.
Using iconography to decipher history
The story through the image thus offers a commented analysis of more than 2856 works. The site also offers 1578 studies and 118 animations of impeccable quality. Paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, photographs, posters, archival documents cover the major events and developments from 1643 to 1945.
A remarkable educational work that exploits and puts within the reach of all the historical treasures of French museums. Each image, which can be displayed in full screen, is accompanied by a text that will define the work from a historical but also an artistic point of view. Each study responds to the same plan. First a text on the historical context, then a complete analysis of the history and finally an interpretation of the work. A bibliography completes the whole and for some works multimedia complements in the form of sound slideshows.
History through image offers studies of unique works, but also ventures into comparative studies two or more works to parallel several documents dealing with the same theme.
An image search engine illustrating historical events
The story through the image takes the form of an edited search engine. You can search among the proposed studies in different ways. By themes, by keywords, by periods or by a powerful and fast classic search engine that will search the index of the entire site.
The site opens with a focus on a historical event that took place either on the same day or in the same month. A historical ephemeris This makes it possible to keep the site up to date with current events.
L’Histoire par l’image also regularly offers out-of-series files. This is the case most recently for an out-of-series on Napoleon, which brings together nearly 80 studies published since the site was created. They are grouped and classified thematically. From the general of the Republic to the fall of the emperor, from relations with the Church to the great battles, the dossier sheds light on this figure in the history of France, who is talked about so much at a major exhibition dedicated to him in Paris.
An online resource to slide without hesitation in your favorites. Hoping that the project does not relax and finds ways to continue to offer regular updates.
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