Ms Harris is dedicated to history, portraying abolitionist Harriet Tubman; preacher Jarena Lee; Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln’s confidant and dressmaker; and educator Sadie Delan. Her ...
In observation of Election Day, Kent State University Museum welcomed author Carmen Evelyn Nuyda to explore how fashion can reveal the out-of-sight historical revolutions. Nuyda wrote a book — soon to ...
On 20 February 1862, a year into the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s third son, Willie, died of a fever. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown. This first novel, published at the age ...
Some Black designers hobnobbed with the rich and famous long before Fashion Week. Elizabeth Keckley, born into slavery and forced to negotiate the purchase of her own freedom, became a skilled and ...