I remember first visiting Drayton Hall when I was writing my Civil War novel, Shades of Gray. The tour had a lasting effect ...

We’ve been here before and our history offers us a powerful response: Support and build settlement houses that will provide spaces in which we can thrive together, in spite of all the forces ...

click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

click image for close-up A Tobacco Plantation was the title page for the 1788 publication The Federalist. Authored by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist is a ...

“I’m back looking at ugly houses in America babeee!” said Retta. “And yes I am also back (with much less enthusiasm) to look at the scary ones. Look, between that months long SAG strike ...

While Middleton Place's gardens attract visitors who appreciate manicured order, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens appeals to lovers of wilder spaces and romantic-style gardens. Visitors come to ...

In a fresh six-episode season of Ugliest House in America, which drew more than 10.3 million viewers in its last run, Retta will go cross-country to visit horrendous homes nominated by their ...