Silhouette artist Kara Walker is not a historian. But she knows that there are sides to every history that are not told, that white male historians ignored. Her artworks fill in the blanks, telling ...

Born without hands, Martha Ann Honeywell (1786-1856) could cut and paste, thread a needle, embroider and write using her mouth. A recent catalog gave a description of a silhouette as “cut by mouth.” ...