Thanks to Marxist historians, Americans are told that slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries was centered around the United ...

An old plantation cemetery holds more than broken stones. Buried among the enslaved are the lost graves of Union soldiers, forgotten by both sides of history. The air is heavy, the ground uneven, and ...

Louis Herns Marcelin, a professor of anthropology at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a ...

From its beginnings, Lexington was a city of education, arts and business. These industries shaped the city we live in today.

The critical difference is the illusion of agency. Where the slave was provided subsistence, the modern worker receives a wage, only to immediately surrender it for the basic necessities of life: ...

Men can be trained to regard their exploiters as the virtuous architects of safety and prosperity, as so many so-called ...

Contraband cellphones aren’t a new phenomenon. They move into prisons through well-worn pipelines: dropped over fences, by ...

The auteur was honored by the festival with its Vanguard Award and reflected on his career. When asked if he really will ...

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The Bissell Mansion is best remembered locally as the site of a popular murder mystery dinner theater, where corpses were ...

In 1851, probably in the early summer, Amanda Trulock took her three older children to Bridgeport, Conn. Victoria (12), Van Buren (11, later called Nichols), and Burton (8) were to live with their ...

Ghost tourism has thrived, urging Americans to embrace the spirit world as a welcome distraction — close enough to death to acknowledge it, far enough away to see ghosts as a present-day entertainment ...