To the eye of the beholders, they represented all the wonders of an indigenous continent in the throes of the West’s late-18th-century colonization and the turmoil that would ultimately bring.

The National Museum of African Art's new exhibit celebrates history's heroes, from the legendary to the relatively unsung. "Heroes: Principles of African Greatness," which opens on November 16, ...

They found that very few medium- and large-bodied mammals are "rift specialists," and the rift environment, in fact, represents on average 1.6% of the total geographic range of modern mammal species.

The daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes shown here, dating from c. 1845 to c. 1865, are unique in their depiction of the broad range of African-American life, according to Deborah Willis, an ...