Katie Mitchell’s photo book “Prose to the People” visits stores around the United States, from the 19th century to today.

Replaying the tariff wars of the 19th century could restore the status quo of American dominance. But this, too, is an illusion. The privileges of historic empires cannot be restored simply by ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

As Miles Orvell writes in American Photography (2003): "Nature, in this 19th-Century context, was land to claim and defend in the name of the US government, it was a wild land to be exuberantly ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

In doing so, the administration cited a 19th century lawsuit that denied U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. The case is called Elk v. Wilkins. The president’s executive order has been blocked ...

Across St. Paul and the Twin Cities, fine-art curators and gallerists are living large. Sometimes this is literal: At The Museum of Russian Art, an exhibition aims to showcase the largest canvases ...

The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance. Following President Donald Trump ...