Such efforts raise questions about whether students in the U.S. will ever be able to engage in free and meaningful discussions about the history of slavery in America and the effect it had on the ...

Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like expected.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...

Double porches. Above all, Tim and Donna Carroll wanted expansive double porches like those gracing many Southern plantation-style homes for the house they planned to build on 17 acres in Versailles. ...

On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New Albany officials were informed that street names in the Planters Grove subdivision are associated with Southern plantations, according to a news release ...

In recent weeks, Confederate symbols have been removed from the Mississippi flag and NASCAR, statues of Confederate generals have toppled and HBO has acknowledged the racism of “Gone with the Wind.” ...