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

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

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

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

Many adolescents have dropped out of school in the area because of the quick gains to be made from cutting cane from the ...

One is Tyler Pie, which is more like modern-day Chess Pie. However, the version that appears in "The James River Plantation Cookbook," written by a descendant of Tyler, is more likely to be the ...

A new exhibition telling the story of Paxton House and its owners is coming to The Granary Gallery in Berwick.

Black residents in the Metro Detroit area and around the country have been receiving racist text messages after the election.

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 ...

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 ...

Relive the Golden Age of railway travel on the best and most iconic historic routes that still run today, from the Orient ...