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Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...
For Christian de Rezendes, the documentary has been a labor of love, one he didn't expect to grow so big and take so long.
African American leaders fought for integration rather than the development of separate Black institutions in the 19th century. The city's first permanent African American newspaper, the CLEVELAND ...
The Met’s director at the time, an Egyptologist named Herbert Eustis Winlock, felt as if the art of the early Americas was not a good fit with the museum, and, according to Rockefeller, he ...
Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza made headlines around the world when, five years ago this month, he and fellow protesters grabbed a 19th-century African funeral post from the Quai Branly ...
A feast bowl from the late 19th to the early 20th century. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Asmat funerary poles at the Met.© Bruce Schwarz/Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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.
Inside the 19th-century Baltimore tradition that stubbornly persists Arabber Keith Chesley carefully fills the horse-drawn cart with vegetables and fruits to sell on the streets of Baltimore.
From heartfelt 19th-century letters to Swiftie bracelets, a UC Berkeley American studies course looks at the ways we’ve found ...
Efforts in the early 20th century to improve the quality of medical education in the United States led to a steep decline in the number of medical schools and medical school graduates. In a new ...
The history behind Donald Trump’s recent accusations that the South African government is engaged in genocide against white Afrikaner farmers.