Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African-American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies.... Read more about Video: Manifest: Thirteen Colonies Lecture & Conversation

Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African-American material culture... Read more about Video: Manifest: Thirteen Colonies Lecture & Conversation

From dynastic armories and curiosity cabinets to Gothic Revival castles, private collections... Read more about Video: The Allure of Collecting Arms and Armor

In A Fool’s Errand (Smithsonian, 2019), Lonnie Bunch shares the vision and leadership... Read more about Video: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Responding to keen interest in last fall’s Reimagining Museums event... Read more about Video: Reimagining Museums: Disruption and Change Part 2

As museums have acknowledged their legacy as colonial institutions... Read more about Video: Reimagining Museums: Disruption and Change Part 1

The United States was in the early stages of Reconstruction when Congress... Read more about Video: Get Them before They’re Gone: From Collecting Cultural Objects to Collaborating with Communities

Robert Gardner Photography Fellow 2021

Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University, New Jersey, will use the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography to work on Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, an ongoing photographic project of African American material culture housed in both public and private collections throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia....

The Peabody Museum was founded at a time of epistemological and political turmoil... Read more about Video: Science, Education, and Character: Reflections on the First Fifty Years of the Peabody Museum, 1866–1916

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the first American fair to feature anthropology.... Read more about Video: All the World Is Here: Anthropology on Display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

For seven seasons, award-winning Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.... Read more about Video: Recovering the Histories of Seven Enslaved Americans