History Now Essay Shaping the Public Imagination: The Sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Chenoa Baker Art Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (b. Philadelphia, 1877–d. Massachusetts, 1968) was a clay, plaster, and bronze sculptor, born to upper middle-class parents working in the hair industry in Philadelphia. During the year, she spent time in... Appears in: 73 | African American Artists Winter 2024
History Now Essay Laura Wheeler Waring: A Luminous Palette Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Art In Laura Wheeler Waring’s Portrait of Marian Anderson (1944), you can almost hear the renowned contralto’s voice soaring in the pastel room in which she stands. There is a vitality to this painting that evokes the performer behind the... Appears in: 73 | African American Artists Winter 2024
History Now Essay The Cubist Collage Aesthetic and the Historical Narratives of Jacob Lawrence Patricia Hills Art Jacob Lawrence stands as a giant in the field of American art. He was the first to devote himself to pictorializing the history of Black people in America—the heroes of struggle against slavery as well as ordinary people living within... Appears in: 73 | African American Artists Winter 2024
Lesson Plan The Declaration of Independence 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 View the Declaration in the Gilder Lehrman Collection by clicking here and here . For additional primary resources click here and here . Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based...
About page Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners Award Ceremony to Take Place February 11, 2025 New Haven, Connecticut, December 4, 2024— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the winners of the twenty-sixth...