Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

The history of Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, LA, is one with deep Southern roots. Considered an American heritage landmark, the stunning antebellum mansion sits about 200 feet behind a ...

Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he ...

It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash America’s fraught history with race.

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...

The history tab of Nottoway’s website provides a detailed listing of the diameters of certain oak trees—but nothing about the history of the plantation, how it was built, or what went on there.

Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy. A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil ...

The plantation, a 64-room, 53,000-square-foot property, was built between 1857 and 1859 for wealthy sugar planter John Hampden Randolph. It was added to the National Register of Historic places in ...

From the Civil War to buyers changing hands to a wedding venue and resort, here's the full history of the Nottoway plantation near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.