Owner of largest antebellum mansion in the South hopes to rebuild after devastating fire — as some celebrate its destruction By . Dana Kennedy. Published May 17, 2025, 6:21 p.m. ET.

For Peter Woloszynski, a British photographer, it was stranger than any adventure he’d had. Getting lost in the casbah of Tangier, being questioned by security police in Cuba — nothing ...

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out ...

Largest antebellum mansion in the south — built in 1859 with 165 rooms — burns to the ground By . Shane Galvin. Published May 16, 2025, 6:44 p.m. ET.

The Nottoway Plantation is one of the largest antebellum homes in the South, and was built by enslaved people. Fire ripped through the historic Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana . (WBRZ-TV) ...

The owner of the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South — which burned to the ground this week — hopes the 166-year-old Louisiana home will rise again. Fire officials believe the ...

The irony and peculiarity of this -- the strangeness of it -- are self-evident. A man who has bought his own freedom now buys the lives, right down to the shadows, of others; at his death Henry ...

From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick ...

This week, Professor William Cooper examines the idea of honor in the Antebellum South. Professor Cooper explains how a person's "honor" was significantly defined by public perception. And for a ...

The antebellum South is an often-discussed era of American history, from the wartime turmoil to the post-Emancipation shift in racial relations. But in regards to horse racing, ...