Washington Black is about an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation around 200 years ago, but one of its stars ...

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.

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

Authors, activists and historians attended the event on Saturday at the George Washington Carver Library and Museum.

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.

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 ...