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Argues that thousands of e-history accounts have taken the discipline of history—predicated on books, articles and lectures—and transposed it to visual media such as Instagram. This visual past accelerates e-history’s agenda-advancing and reality-suggesting functions through curated and filtered progressions of images. The visual past promises that complex events and histories can be condensed and represented in iconic and symbolic forms, a “good-enough” historical understanding wrapped in a visually arresting package.
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Steinhauer, J. (2022). The Visual Past. In: History, Disrupted. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85117-0_6
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