Artist, historian and bestselling author Nell Painter on her new book of essays and art. Artist, historian and bestselling author Nell Irvin Painter on her new book: “I Just Keep Talking,” a ...

The radical histories of Nell Irvin Painter. A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist. On May Day in 1933 in ...

Nell Irvin Painter is a celebrated historian, and the author of books such as “The History of White People” and “Creating Black Americans.” When she retired as a professor of American history from ...

“I Just Keep Talking,” a collection of essays and artwork by the historian Nell Irvin Painter, captures her wide-ranging interests and original mind. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Nell Irvin Painter — author, scholar, historian, artist, raconteur — rocked my world with her The History of White People and endeared me with her memoir Old in Art School. Painter’s latest book, I ...

In our ongoing video series Bookmark, The Root talks to authors to find out the personal stories behind their talked-about books. Here, Nell Painter, a leading American historian, talks about her ...

That’s why that term for that late-19th-century period in American history — the Gilded Age — is so apt. As historian Nell ...

Nell Painter, historian, has pioneered a new field in the study of slavery. In her work Soul Murder and Slavery, Painter examines the psychological impact that the institution has on both black and ...

Introduction. Southern History across the Color Line -- Soul Murder and Slavery: Toward a Fully Loaded Cost Accounting -- "Social Equality" and "Rape" in the Fin-de-Siècle South -- Three Southern ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The MacDowell Colony, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious artist colonies, has chosen the author-educator Nell Painter as its new board chair. Painter will be the first ...