With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

What comes to mind when you think of the city of Savannah? Is it the beautifully laid out squares that dot the city? Or ...

More than 18 months into the Russian central bank's spree of interest-rate hikes aimed at taming accelerating inflation triggered by massive government spending on the war, market rates for home loans ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

They are ready to sift through what’s left in the Southern plantation home, perhaps sell the place, split the money, and do everything most families are tasked with when someone passes away.

They are ready to sift through what’s left in the Southern plantation home, perhaps sell the place, split the money, and do everything most families are tasked with when someone passes away.

They walked day and night along two roads – one coastal, one central – that connect the north and south ... home is Samira, just 10 years old, who says she has spent the duration of the war ...

Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.