Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

"The president is exploiting the fault lines that have long existed in the uncaring and unequal way we treat each other," ...

Paintings by Robert Seldon Duncanson and Winslow Homer are coming in May to the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Art in Wilder Park features a preview of “Crossings,” a solo exhibition of sculptures by acclaimed Chicago artist Bernard ...

The US artist and activist tackled the social issues of his time, from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War ...

For another powerful novel that explores the complexities of motherhood, try Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Set in the seemingly perfect suburb of Shaker Heights, the story follows two very ...

A new book celebrates the remarkable life of a medical pioneer. Titled “South Carolina’s Matilda Evans,” the volume outlines ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s ...