Smithsonian Magazine24d
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
PBS2y
Five Abolitionists
Rochester (and upstate New York) was a hotbed for political abolitionism and was a boom town -- upstate New York in antebellum America was the California of the 20th century. There Douglass ...
A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects
Poynor’s talent for craft and his improbable rise to prominence is one of ten beautifully illustrated essays in A Short ...
National Review3y
Americana and Folk Art Prompt Bidding Wars at Sotheby’s and Christie’s
The fireworks over The Woman with Pink Ribbons and Captain John Bourne show collectors’ renewed interest in antebellum American art. Americana Week, for me, is January’s Christmas. The third ...
BBC14y
Eminem and Antebellum lead American Music Award nods
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The Globe and Mail28d
Today’s North American economic nationalism isn’t unprecedented - it’s a pattern
For many U.S. politicians (such as Lincoln speaking in antebellum America), high barriers to trade were an attempt at healing an internally divided nation. Nation-building and commercial conflict ...