Here’s a look at a sampling of advertisements for runaway slaves in Amherst County in the 1700s, and one from 1819. Thomas Costa, a professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise ...

With the November election finally coming to pass in the next couple of weeks, many of us will not miss the daily barrage of radio, television, billboard and internet political ads touting or ...

Throughout the 1700s, New Orleans generally was a small ... advertisements in 1899 for Barataria shrimp, and similar period ads for Louisiana seafood in San Francisco newspapers and elsewhere ...