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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
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Lily Gladstone’s Oscar Gowns To Be Displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will display two gowns worn by Oscar-nominated actor Lily Gladstone (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfeet]/Nimiipuu [Nez Perce]) at its museum in ...
How the Couture Pattern Museum Preserves Artifacts That First Democratized Fashion
Rademaker's small museum in Santa Barbara, Calif., aims to preserve the paper sewing patterns women used to make French ...
The 25 Shoes and Bags That Transformed Fashion
A group of experts consider the accessories from the past 100 years that changed how we carry our things — and ourselves.