Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. What to know ...

The National Park Service manages 433 units around the country, including many smaller parks aimed at preserving places of ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

Back in 1860, the ideas that had emboldened the war were debated in Santa Cruz, through fiery editorials in local and San ...

For many in the Natchez community, the scars from racism run deep and the struggle is far from over, as evidenced by stories ...

The story of Holt Collier, the bear guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on his famous 1902 Mississippi hunt.

The designation from the National Park Service opens up the Quindaro Townsite to new opportunities for federal funding and ...

So Trump, a real estate huckster at heart and in office, fits into a flawed American tradition: a manifesto based on more, more, more. Robert Frost put the quest poetically: "The land was ours ... in ...

One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding ...