Getting lost in the casbah of Tangier, being questioned by security police in Cuba — nothing prepared him for being invited into the antebellum mansions of the South. He didn’t dare take so ...

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

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 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 ...

It was first ignited in the south wing of the building, according to officials. Employees then reported seeing smoke after walking into a room of the museum on the second floor. Fire officials ...

A historic plantation converted into a resort and wedding venue burned to the ground Thursday night.

As Marie Claire Bryant writes for Smithsonian’s Folklife magazine, some legends say enslaved Africans in the antebellum South integrated quilts into the trails of the Underground Railroad ...

The South’s biggest surviving antebellum mansion was reduced to rubble by a massive fire which was still under investigation Friday. The Nottaway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana ...

Now a popular wedding venue, the mansion built in 1859 was "not only the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South ...

“Nottoway was not only the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South but also a symbol of both the grandeur and deep complexities of our region’s past,” Iberville Parish President ...