The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit regarding a developer and their plans to build on a former plantation site. The suit claims ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

Hollywood A-listers Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively planned their 'dream wedding' with no expense spared, but they forgot to think about the optics of their beautiful surroundings ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds seem unable to catch a break with their every move both past and present coming under scrutiny ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are back in the spotlight as their 2012 plantation wedding controversy re-emerges amid a legal ...