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‘Give me liberty’: Richmond museum exhibit celebrates contributions of key Virginians
Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...
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This unknown French Impressionist painter was a pupil of Édouard Manet (and later became his muse!)
As quiet as she was talented, Eva Gonzalès embodied the grace, modernity and freedom of early Impressionism, in an artistic ...
She’s remembered as the female Paul Revere. Does it matter if her story isn’t all true?
Historians debate whether Sybil Ludington’s ride happened as described. Yet her story is a window into women’s roles during ...
Museums Tell Stories of American Independence
Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...
The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2)
In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed ...