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 ...

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 ...

The collaborative paper- and printmaking workshop at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia publishes new works by resident artists. Nell Painter, “William Still Triptych, 3” (2022) ...

Nell Painter photograph by John Emerson (all images courtesy of Nell Painter) PRINCETON, NJ — After retiring as a professor of American history from Princeton University, Nell Painter embarked on a ...

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 ...

Yale University's decision last month to upgrade its African-American studies program to a department will not put pressure on Princeton to take similar action, according to Provost Jeremiah Ostriker.

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 ...