Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is affirmed as one of the most significant American artists of ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits to local museums.I fondly remember ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, currently has exhibits focusing on the power of Black protest, the impact of enslavement ...