Home to some of Louisiana's best-preserved plantation homes dating back to the early 1800s, the old cotton town of St. Francisville is now a Southern history-lover's ideal destination. This ...

As slaves were treated as taxable property, the possibility of an overestimation is unlikely, she said. Indiana’s reign as mistress of the antebellum Southern plantation would be brief.

The Nottoway plantation home was only one of many beautiful southern mansions with grisly backstories.

A forgotten 19th-century story can help us navigate today’s political fractures Reconciliation is good — but not at any cost ...

Fred Miller, an Air Force veteran, purchased a home in southern Virginia unaware of its deep connection to his family's history.