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Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...
The 19th-century Allen is the person who founded the company that today sells fine furniture. He "was a pioneer in the transition from handmade to machine-made and interchangeable parts." Id. at 28.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette pioneer community offered its small African American population unskilled work as cooks, whitewashers and laborers. Enterprising individuals, however, thwarted ...
An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City ...
Description. This lesson focuses on the evolution of American museums in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. The lesson, which features Harvard University professor and author Reed Gochberg ...
"The Challenges Of Finding And Being An African-American Physician In Nineteenth-Century America", Health Affairs Forefront, April 25, 2025 . DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20250423.950153 ...
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.
In a sign of museums’ surging interest in African-American artistry, a second show of a 19th-century black potter’s work opened this winter at the New-York Historical Society. It is the first ...
By the late 1800s, the children of 19th century immigrants — mostly northern Europeans — had largely assimilated into American society, despite the anti-German prejudice that was common during ...
19th Century American & Western Art. Christie's New York. 20 Rockefeller Plaza. New York, NY 10020. USA. T: +1-212-636-2000 January 18, 2024. Christie’s American Art department is thrilled to present ...
F ew expected him to go so far. In a stunning shift in American economic policy, Donald Trump has yanked up tariffs across the board. On April 2nd, speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House ...