Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

In HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age,” a frequently glossed-over aspect of Black history is put in the spotlight.Textbooks documenting this time in history would have you believe that the era ...

The Worcester Art Museum has many outstanding 19th century paintings in its collection, including works by such esteemed artists as Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, James McNeill ...

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, thoughtfully edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins, is a rewarding read that reminds us the past isn't a single story.

How 19th-Century Anti-Black and Anti-Indigenous Racism Reverberates Today A case study for the nation, Minnesota has witnessed racial violence from its inception as a U.S. territory Katrina Phillips ...

Reed recalls his experience of prison life in the 19th century in a singular, clear voice. His was not a typical story of a black man living in pre-Civil War America.

For Black History Month, we put together this chronological list of culturally significant work, from 19th-century landscape paintings to social commentary on the history of white Eurocentric art.

African-American writers since the 19th century have advocated a distinctively black literature and aesthetic, and in the 20th century countless American groups followed suit, attempting the Asian ...

Worcester Art Museum's recent acquisition of paintings by Edward Mitchell Bannister and Charles Ethan Porter helps bridge an important gap in history. Filling a gap in history: WAM acquires works ...