HISTORY

Tucked into the desert landscape of northwest Las Vegas, the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum is an unexpected cultural treasure. Discover the extraordinary artistic legacy of a woman whose lifelong passion for painting, sculpture, and experimentation created a museum unlike any other in the city.

As Filipino Town Las Vegas celebrates its first anniversary, we explore the rich cultural heritage, entrepreneurial spirit and growing influence of the Filipino American community in Southern Nevada. From generations of tradition to a thriving presence in the city's cultural and business landscape, Filipino Town represents a community whose contributions continue to shape Las Vegas.

At the Château de Chantilly, American history appears in unexpected places: a French princely kitchen, an exile’s sketchbook, a Civil War battlefield and a rare printed letter announcing Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. The United States and Chantilly: Interwoven Histories, presented in the Musée Condé’s Reading Room from October 17, 2026, through January 3, 2027, traces nearly two centuries of political, artistic and personal exchange. Manuscripts, archives, photographs a

America's 250th anniversary naturally draws attention toward its great monuments: Independence Hall, the National Mall, Revolutionary battlefields and the buildings where presidents and statesmen shaped a new republic. But another America survives beyond those familiar landmarks. It can be found in a Black-owned hotel in Montgomery, an immigration station in San Francisco Bay, an adobe church near the Rio Grande, a Quaker meeting house in Massachusetts, an ancestral landscape

There are places where history is displayed, and places where it still seems to occupy the rooms. Versailles belongs emphatically to the latter. Behind its gilded gates and ceremonial façades lies not only the story of the French monarchy but an unexpectedly consequential chapter in the creation of the United States. In 2026, as America marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Château de Versailles is bringing that shared history back into view thro

History feels different when it is encountered through the objects people once held, the newspapers they read, the places where they gathered and the ideas they left behind. On August 23, FQM Washington, D.C. Correspondent Dr. Bruno Mazali attended The Marcus Garvey Royal Collection, a historical exhibition presented by the Heritage Gallery UNIA-International Museum and Archive in Washington, D.C. The gathering became part of a broader encounter with African American history;

The Statue of Liberty may be one of the most recognizable images on earth, which is precisely why it has become so difficult to really see. We know the outline before we consider the sculpture itself: the crown, the torch, the tablet, the lifted arm. She appears on postcards and protest signs, in campaign imagery and cartoons, in films, advertisements and schoolbooks. Over nearly 150 years, Liberty has become less a single monument than a visual language through which America

On the Normandy coast, the tide continues to come and go as it always has. Children walk along the sand. Families look out toward the English Channel. Wind moves through the grasses above the cliffs. At first glance, there are stretches of coastline where nothing about the landscape seems capable of explaining the enormous weight of history beneath one's feet. And yet, on June 6, 1944, this shore became the stage for one of the defining military operations of the twentieth ce

Dr. Judy Staveley. Photo: Barry Morgenstein. History has always depended upon witnesses. Before archives become authoritative and anniversaries acquire ceremony, someone must first decide that a moment is worth recording. A letter is saved. A photograph is captioned. An interview is transcribed. A journalist notices what others have passed by. Speaking with Dr. Judy Staveley, Founder and CEO of The Platform Magazine, during America’s 250th anniversary year, I was struck by ho