Sitting presidents traditionally host their predecessor at the White House for a ceremony to unveil an official portrait. In ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins honored the legacy of the organization’s Black players and veteran Black hockey player Willie O’Ree ...

Researchers detected the mysterious figure in the early-blue period painting "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" (1901).

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

A self-portrait of Raphael at age 23 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Raphael’s Mary Magdalene is a willowy figure standing in front of a black geometric background. She’s without her ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display ... Museum of African American History and Culture. In 1808, the United ...