Fascinating Women: Bessie Smith and the Blues
byMany music historians–and historians in general–consider the musical genres that emerged from African-American communities at the turn of the century to be the first…
African American
Little-known tidbits about the people and the contributions of African-Americans to society.
Black Business in the Gilded Age: Poro Beauty College
byBeauty culture was big business at the turn of the century, and just as the beauty industry liberated women like Helena Rubenstein, Harriet Hubbard…
The Mid-Winter Assembly, Baltimore, 1912
byIn 1908, William H. Bishop, Jr. invariably identified as “belonging to one of the oldest families in Maryland,” who was clerk in the Internal…