I do not think of myself as a benefactor. I am a public historian, social and arts activist, and American Indian advocate and as such have found myself being conscious of the world around me and ...

Check back in late summer for a NEW museum adventure for ages 4–6! Calendar View a listing by month of programs for families of all ages. Birthday Parties Celebrate at the Brooklyn Museum! Available ...

The household in which Anne Cooke Bacon grew up was hailed by the Elizabethan intellectual Walter Haddon as a “small university.” Each of Anthony Cooke’s five daughters received a thorough humanist ...

Historical assessments of Catherine the Great have not been kind. She was, indeed, a complex and contradictory personality. Inspired by Enlightenment ideals, she was nevertheless threatened by their ...

In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could be projected, in magnified form, onto a surface using ...

Susan Rodriguez is a Design Partner in Polshek Partnership Architects, an internationally acclaimed architecture firm located in New York City. The majority of the firm’s work is for not-for-profit ...

María Bartola was an Aztec princess who wrote an account of the Spanish invasion of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City). We know of her work from the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva ...

Married to Jacques Necker, the French minister of finance under Louis XVI, Suzanne Necker hosted a brilliant Parisian salon that attracted the likes of Denis Diderot, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, ...

German Expressionist sculptor and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz dealt with themes of social injustice in her work. Depicting poverty-stricken mothers and children, war, and death, Kollwitz’s art is a ...

The correct spelling of this name is ROSANA CHOUTEAU. Rosana Chouteau was elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the Native American Osage Nation, in 1875, following the death of her uncle.

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Parisian midwife Angélique du Coudray worked in the court of Louis XV. In 1759, the king launched a project to decrease infant mortality rates and commissioned her to teach midwifery to peasant women.