As agriculture expanded from the Carolinas into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, early Southern farmers grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, finding a profitable market for these ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

The study in Olympia evaluates the impact of slavery and discriminatory policies, exploring remedies such as cash payments, ...

Mike Snyder returned to his native Chatham to give a presentation on the history of slavery in Morris County and what he ...

But instead of licking their wounds and waiting four years to try to regain power, the enslavers arrogantly seceded from the union. This allowed Lincoln to ban slavery in the Confederacy as part of ...

Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Taken from the back half of Isaiah 11:6, it reads “and a little child shall lead them.” That seemed appropriate to the ...

TALLAHASSEE - America's first president is in the Florida Capitol Building. Indeed, a statue of George Washington will be on ...