Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th ...

Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts In the 18th century, a singular religious society arrived on American shores from England. Its members were known as Shakers, from their ...

Anne Helmreich, director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, leads the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible ...

The focus is on Italy, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Spain, and their American ... art production, and the limits of historical periodization. At the end of the semester, they will have mastered ...