Much of the rest of what became the United States, including Louisiana, was controlled by ... to the United States and purchasing a large plantation in South Carolina, where he collected specimens ...

From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.

The Southern Forest Heritage Museum works to preserve and maintain the nation's most significant sawmill complex.

A federal agency revoked funds for a long-planned Whitney Plantation exhibit on Black resistance, citing a new executive order under President Trump.

And it has an economic structure that thrives in isolation, so much so that it’s almost like a type of feudalism where plantations (where sharecroppers farmed) can be so wealthy, so powerful and ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was ...

Interview With the Vampire is a sexy, hunky, indulgent treat that starts in 1791 Spanish Louisiana and finishes ... from Louis’ extravagantly decorated plantation to New Orleans penthouses ...

In June 1863, she helped lead a gunboat raid on plantations along the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina, an action that freed more than 700 slaves. As Union gunboats took on those who ...

Locals voted and the memories poured in. These 10 Lafayette restaurants may be gone, but they’re still part of our ...

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