Houmas House sits gracefully along a bend of the Mississippi River, on land once inhabited by the Houmas Indians. Over ...

Ice agents are set to move into the city in a concerted sweep of immigration enforcement, with the aim of removing some 5,000 ...

Woman's dad died, months later she noticed something in her coffee table U.S. Navy raids tuna boat in Caribbean, Venezuela says, as tensions escalate Reporter who interviewed Charlie Kirk last month ...

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Published in the journal Antipode, the article ...

HARPERSVILLE, Ala. — Word travels fast in this small town, so when Theoangelo Perkins heard that the family of Bill Parker was visiting his grave, he jumped in his car and raced to the old cemetery.

Once the heart of a sprawling East Texas plantation run on enslaved labor, the Monte Verdi estate—complete with multiple historical markers—is now for sale for $1.59 million. Located on a hilltop in ...

Betsy Pudliner is affiliated with ICHRIE. The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where ...

For many African Americans and some others, the historic plantations of the Lowcountry are problematic places where past cruelty converges with the contemporary tourist economy. These historic sites ...

Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government issued a public apology on Saturday to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like conditions according to a ruling issued last year by ...