After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage ...

Today, foods associated with the Southern U.S. have a reputation for being a bit on the heavy side — sumptuous, meaty, occasionally deep-fried. Think fried chicken, mac and cheese, shrimp and ...

It was a major export in 18th-century South Carolina. Like rice and cotton, the lucrative indigo crop was dependent on the skills and labor of enslaved Africans, who tended the plantation fields ...