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A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

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Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...