Andrew Smith offers up a volume of food resources in his book, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, which reveals American food history and how it has influenced everything from slang to ...

Anela Malik worked as a diplomat before becoming a storyteller about Black food history — and much more. She hosts the web series, “Our Block,” about Black businesses and local heroes, organizes ...

From paintings celebrating a Land of Plenty, to cookbooks championing political causes, there’s a lot to chew on in American food history. Exhibition curator Kaleigh Pisani, curator of collections and ...

A crowd, estimated at 5,000 inside church during a rally at Montgomery's First Baptist Church in 1956. A crowd, estimated at 5,000 inside church during a rally at Montgomery's First Baptist Church in ...

A self-portrait in a mirror of Troy writer Amy Halloran in the library of the Hart Cluett Museum, home to the archives of the Rensselaer County Historical Society. She is writer-in-residence at the ...