Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal ...

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

A Colonial Williamsburg reenactor explores how Thomas Jefferson reconciled writing about liberty while owning slaves, ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

It’s amazing what can be found at the bottom of people’s gardens. The severed marble head of an unknown Roman philosopher, ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

Pope Leo and his childhood home in Dolton, Illinois PHOTOS COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA AND Detroit, MI. – A New Orleans genealogist ...

In Konstantin Flavitsky’s vivid 1855 painting, we witness the moment Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery — a scene from Genesis 37 that not only reveals family betrayal, but prefigures Christ’s ...

Jari Honora has been tracing bloodlines and family lineage since he was 9 years old, when he began a yearslong journey to ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.