Jointly organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Maryland, the Association of Historians of American Art Biennial Symposium will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of AHAA (2019) and the fiftieth anniversary of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s preeminent fellowship
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li