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Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...
Early and 19th Century American literary studies explores the American experience through history, visual studies, philosophy, textual studies and race and gender theory.
Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life ...
Beyond Juneteenth, other historic holidays honor Black culture and liberation in American history. Pinkster has its roots in colonial New York.
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
In a sign of museums’ surging interest in African-American artistry, a second show of a 19th-century black potter’s work opened this winter at the New-York Historical Society.
They have since founded Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) in a late 19th century African Methodist Episcopal church at 189 Hollow Road in Skillman.
American distilling manuals from the early 19th century recommended ways Americans could mimic cognac, a spirit they considered the peak of the distiller’s art.
Nearly 3,500 first-graders from 73 schools across Iowa will join the 19th African American Read-In hosted by University of Northern Iowa as a free, virtual event Thursday.
From police raids to pop culture: The early history of modern drag Today’s drag queens trace their roots back to clandestine balls hosted by Black performers in the late 19th century.
The marker will recognize a 19th-century African American cemetery that was intentionally covered up in the early 20th Century by city officials.
Learn about and revise how Jim Crow laws, discrimination and segregation affected African Americans with BBC Bitesize GCSE History - OCR A.