Bruce S. Hall is an associate history professor at the University of California Berkeley whose lecture about capitalism in 19th-century Timbuktu is sponsored by the prestigious Fusco Distinguished ...

Studiocanal has boarded the epic action drama “Agoodjie,” an English language series based on the extraordinary true story of a fearsome female army in 19 th-century Africa. The eight-part series, ...

“The Language of Beauty in African Art” at the Kimbell Art Museum includes this headdress (detail view) from the Djitoumou region of Mali. Robert LaPrelle / Kimbell Art Museum FORT WORTH — The vast ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...

Life and times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself -- Duplicate copy of the souvenir from the Afro-American league of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio... -- Myrtilla Miner, a memoir -- ...

The show will weave the points of view of a young female villager destined for greater things, and an enlightened monarch leading a once wealthy kingdom. Opening in 1889, the series will follow the ...