Layton Williams broke down in tears on the most recent episode of the genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are?, as he ...

The Whitney Plantation tells the story of slavery, one building at a time. A church, a cabin, a jail. Soon, if executive ...

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those ...

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

Uncover the mysterious story behind the discovery of a Union soldier's body hidden in a historic slave cemetery at Boddie Plantation, shedding light on the complex past of this forgotten site.

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI.

a former plantation-turned-museum that teaches the truth about slavery, according to The Guardian. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides resources and support to ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this sea island cotton plantation with his wife Anna Madgigine Jai – a formerly ...

In these massive mansions, the past can be confronting.