In his clearly and engagingly written book, Peter Burke guides readers through the gallery of history, thereby expanding the repository of historical sources. Images are - far from any artistic consideration - also to be read as materials for historical understanding, offering historians a previously underutilized opportunity to write history. Paintings, prints, cartoons, maps, posters, photographs, and the moving images of film are highly expressive; however, they can also lie or obscure and manipulate reality. Through numerous examples from antiquity to the present, from equestrian statues to Japanese woodblock prints, Peter Burke tests his theory of historical, critically interpretive viewing. The reader will come to see many images in a new light.