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 ...

From the opening sentences of her new collection, “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays,” historian Nell Irvin Painter addresses readers in a voice brimming with knowledge, clarity and, most ...

Princeton professors Tina Campt and Nell Irvin Painter are among the 24 recipients of this year's Berlin Prize Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship is awarded by the American Academy in Berlin to ...

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 ...

Diane Sawyer and author Nell Irvin Painter discuss what it means to be "white." April 1, 2010— -- What does it mean to be "white"? Is it one race of people? Were people defined as "white" ...

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 ...

Conversations about race often focus on what it means to be black. But in her new book, The History of White People historian Nell Irvin Painter... Author Examines 'The History Of White People' ...

Scholar, historian, artist and raconteur Nell Irvin Painter is the author of The History of White People and Old in Art School. Her latest book is... Nell Irvin Painter — author, scholar, historian, ...