"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Thomas Birch, Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, c. 1814, oil on canvas, 167.64 x 245.11 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), a Seeing America video
speakers: Dr. Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Dr. Steven Zucker
Other Videos By Smarthistory
| 2020-02-28 | The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera |
| 2020-02-26 | The painting that inspired a National Park |
| 2020-02-24 | Endangered coastlines and lifeways — a Shinnecock artist's view |
| 2020-02-15 | Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion |
| 2020-02-09 | The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians |
| 2020-02-07 | A dangerous escape to freedom: Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves |
| 2020-02-06 | Hiram S. Powers, The Greek Slave, 1866 |
| 2020-02-03 | Sue Coe, Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait, 1990 |
| 2020-02-01 | Mapping nature's stunning beauty |
| 2020-01-29 | The first modern photograph? Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage |
| 2020-01-23 | "We have met the enemy and they are ours." |
| 2020-01-08 | A desert on fire, Salgado photographs Kuwait |
| 2020-01-05 | Think you know van Gogh? The Potato Eaters |
| 2019-12-30 | Behind the icon, Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother |
| 2019-12-20 | Do you speak Renaissance? |
| 2019-12-18 | Beyond the Great Wave — Hokusai at 90 |
| 2019-12-18 | Queen or goddess? |
| 2019-12-03 | The angry ducks of a Ming prince |
| 2019-12-03 | Red so rare it was lost to time, a ritual Ming dish |
| 2019-12-02 | Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran |
| 2019-11-18 | Inspiration at Yosemite |
Tags: art
Perry
Lake Erie
British Navy
Royal Navy
War of 1812
1813
Tecumseh
Great Lakes
American History
Social Studies
Seeing America
Smarthistory
art history
Philadelphia
PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Thomas Birch
paitning
sea battle
naval battle
U.S. Navy
ships
fleet
Cannon
ship of the line
sloop
Boat
Navy
Naval History
Niagra
Lawrence
Battle of Put-in-Bay
Ohio
military history
brig
APUSH
134