The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival at Berkeley Plantation takes place Sunday to celebrate and remember the first official ...

Resting along the James River fall line, the city’s location makes it naturally susceptible to flooding after heavy rains, ...

From colonial towns to seaport villages, some of the oldest towns in the United States take you back in time to eras gone by.

JAMES PARISH, La ... “Buried at Buena Vista,” connects the remains found at the former plantation, on the Mississippi River west bank just downstream from the Sunshine Bridge, to a handwritten ...

When a slave who belonged to overseer James Cleveland returned a ... to land their craft near Washington's River Farm. Three slaves of the plantation, one of whom was armed with a gun, approached ...

Harriet Tubman has been posthumously recognized as a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. At a ceremony ...

Ken Bridges is a writer, historian and native Texan. He holds a doctorate from the University of North Texas. Bridges can be ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and ...

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The other two groups, based in the River Parishes ... names of enslaved people who were buried at Buena Vista plantation in St. James Parish. (Louisiana Bucket Brigade photo) Such remains were ...

This map highlights the location of the former Buena Vista plantation in St. James Parish, with a red star placed where ...