Here are this week’s historical highlights, six articles touching on race, archives, and museum exhibits.
Have you heard of the Christie Pits race riots that took place in Toronto in 1933? This new graphic novel will fill you in.
A lawsuit argues that descendants of slaves should own their photographs.
An exhibit at Purdue University Archives commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing.
And an exhibit at the Met explores the art of the Middle East between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250.
The Library of Congress has acquired a trove of letters written by Georgia O’Keeffe. (She’s also featured in one of the picture books I reviewed for Women’s History Month.)
Finally, what do you think of the controversy about museums taking donations from big pharma?