A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

In fact, there remains hundreds of plantations in the American south— many of which are still ... the 53,000-square-foot property is home to a 162-year-old Oak tree named Ella Eugenia.

Some plantation houses, like the Whitney plantation, offer a tour of the house that illuminates the history of slavery. This ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people ...