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50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (New Pics) | Bored Panda Hamburg, Haunting Photos, Coal Miners, Change Your Perspective, Historical Images, Visual Media, Text Stories, History Photos, Hamburg Germany

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

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