In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

At a time when most African Americans were still enslaved on farms and plantations in the Antebellum South, Poynor was a prolific furniture maker who was admired by white society for his skills as ...

as well as the role of Jews in the antebellum South, the extent to which they suffered from anti-semitism and the extent to which they believed in white supremacy and slavery. The patriarch ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight to the heart of the question ...

The discussed topics, which ranged from the mistreatment of Black women in the Antebellum South to the relationship between women’s health and religious institutions, sought to add academic context to ...

A subculture of violence has existed among African Americans for over a century; the same problem appeared among whites in the antebellum South. Culture isn’t written in stone, however, and can change ...

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to ...