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Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Diana Jo Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.
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It took 10 interviews over the course of a year, but Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is now director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
Emerald green, a verdant hue popular during the Victorian era, featured in everything from wallpaper to confections. Now, experts are warning about the pigment painted onto some books of the period.
The history of Violet Dandridge’s investment in her work as a scientific illustrator and a suffragist, told in her own words, helps us construct a more complete picture of what it meant to many women to pursue careers and basic rights in the early twentieth century.
AT the end of July, Jamaican award-winning author Roland Watson-Grant will be a special guest presenter at the IBOM International Art and Book Festival in Nigeria. Watson-Grant, who is the winner...