Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th ...

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo: Studio Sebert for Tajan Born to a formerly enslaved mother in Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832) moved to Paris as a teen with his plantation ...

Cochineal, a bright red dye derived from insects, helped make Oaxaca wealthy in the 18th century when European ... a vintage doctor’s cabinet, a folk art barro betus dog pyramid stands guard ...

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist Franz Christoph Janneck, in which an alchemist ...