Over at Vox, a white woman who until recently was a tour guide at a historic Southern plantation recounts some ... interesting questions she got from the mostly white tourists she encountered over the ...

Such efforts raise questions about whether students in the U.S. will ever be able to engage in free and meaningful discussions about the history of slavery in America and the effect it had on the ...

WALLACE, La. (AP) — Ceramic sculptures of hollow-eyed slave children haunt the Whitney Plantation, west of New Orleans, where owner John Cummings has infused the traditional antebellum plantation tour ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...

The key to better understanding the complex and uncomfortable parts of the American history is asking more nuanced questions, not leaning into one’s preconceived notions, says a historian working at ...

Many Americans now are seeking to come to terms with a long legacy of racism embedded in fabric of a country that, since its colonial origins, has subjugated and oppressed Black people. During the ...

THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...

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 ...

Located on nearly 2,000 acres along the banks of the Potomac River, Stratford Hall Plantation is the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the home of four generations of the Lee family, ...

There are a dozen restored antebellum mansions and plantations along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on the River Road outside of New Orleans, and they are among the most popular tourist day ...