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

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

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.

Many people of the late 19th century must have liked seeing, and being, women adorned with large, enhanced backsides. To suggest that fashion is a cycle divorced from context is to suggest it ...

She was a free woman of color, spoke fluent French and was a Black “Creole” of African, ... and possessed its own set of traditions and distinctions in 19th-century New Orleans.

The Catholic Church asked a team of scientists and the Quai Branly museum in Paris to examine the heart of Pauline Jaricot — a 19th-century missionary worker from Lyon, France, who died in 1862 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with South African actress Thuso Mbedu about her role in "The Woman King," a new movie about woman warriors in 19th century West Africa.