Over the past five years, Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead has ramped up efforts its efforts talk about slavery and the four ...

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.

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Imagine a city street at dusk, silent save for the rising sound of a collective guttural moan. Suddenly, a horde of ragged, bloodied creatures appear, their feet shuffling along the pavement, their ...

A viral Annabelle meme about a burning plantation uncovers hidden history; linking horror tropes to Black spirituality, and ...

That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, who trace Gentilly’s early history as a ...

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Gwen Bankins, 61, stood in a hot, cramped cabin in Southern Maryland on a recent afternoon and thought about the lives that had passed through it. Nearly 180 years ago, her great-great-grandfather — ...

As co-founders of the Descendants Project, Joy and Jo Banner have achieved success in large part by their mastery of attracting media attention. Stepping outside their homes in the small Louisiana ...

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 ...