GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS (AP).- A museum focusing on early civil rights history in Western Massachusetts has opened. The W.E.B. Du Bois Center in Great Barrington recently unveiled the Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers and will feature items related to the…
The Huntington Library Announces Major Civil War Photographs Exhibition
SAN MARINO, CA.- As the nation begins to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announces its plans for a major exhibition of photographs opening in October 2012 along with a companio…
National Gallery of Victoria Presents Creative Responses to the Experience of Water
MELBOURNE.- On 4 April, the National Gallery of Victoria opened Deep Water, an exhibition that presents creative responses to the experience of water in the landscape and at sea. Drawn entirely from the NGV’s Photography Collection, Deep Water co…
Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria Presents Creative Responses to the Experience of Water
MELBOURNE.- On 4 April, the National Gallery of Victoria opened Deep Water, an exhibition that presents creative responses to the experience of water in the landscape and at sea. Drawn entirely from the NGV’s Photography Collection, Deep Water co…
George Eastman House Marks 150th Anniversary of Civil War with Exhibitions
ROCHESTER, NY.- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film commemorates the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War with photography and motion picture exhibitions. The museum’s unparalleled collection of 19th-century pho…
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Says It is Time to Build Civil Rights Museum
JACKSON, MISS (AP).- Possible presidential contender Gov. Haley Barbour — under fire recently for comments that critics claim minimized the problems of Mississippi’s civil rights era — said Tuesday night that his state should build a museum …
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Says It is Time to Build Civil Rights Museum
JACKSON, MISS (AP).- Possible presidential contender Gov. Haley Barbour — under fire recently for comments that critics claim minimized the problems of Mississippi’s civil rights era — said Tuesday night that his state should build a museum …
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Honors Vassar College’s 150th Anniversary with Exhibition
TAMPA, FL.- Saluting the 150th anniversary of the noted educational institution, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts presents an exhibition from Vassar College. Founded in 1861, Vassar was famous as a pioneering women’s college before it went…
New Exhibits at Chicago’s Hull House Museum
CHICAGO (AP).- At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement house clinics, learned job skills through training classes and found community at…
New York and Other States Scrimp on Civil War’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP).- New York state contributed 448,000 troops and $150 million to the Union cause during the Civil War, not to mention untold tons of supplies, food, guns and munitions. But with the 150th anniversary of the war’s start just months away…