EditorialPhillis Wheatley (c.1753-1785). African-American poet. Portrait. She published 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral', the first book published by an African-American and the second by an American woman. Poems on various subjects, etc. London...
EditorialShooting 'Phillis', a Pointer of Lord Clermonts, Benjamin Green, ca. 1736ca. 1800, British, after George Stubbs, 17241806, British, 1772, Mezzotint, Sheet: 13 x 18in. (33 x 45.7cm).
EditorialFormer Vice President Joe Biden greets people outside the Phillis Wheatley Community Center, a polling location for the South Carolina Democratic Primary, in Greenville, S.C., Feb. 29, 2020.
(Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
EditorialPhillis, daughter of Cliomened, sitting with a small box in her hand, from which she unrolls a scroll concerning the mysteries of Eleusis. Funerary stele,430 BCE,from Thasos, Greece. Height 154 cm. MA 766.
EditorialPhillis Wheatley (c.1753-1785). African-American poet. Portrait. She published 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral', the first book published by an African-American and the second by an American woman. Poems on various subjects, etc. London...
EditorialPhillis, daughter of Cliomened, sitting with a small box in her hand, from which she unrolls a scroll concerning the mysteries of Eleusis. Funerary stele,430 BCE,from Thasos, Greece. Height 154 cm. MA 766.