The Texas Historical Commission has removed a number of books from the gift shops of two former slave plantations after a white, self-described “advocate for an honest portrayal of history” questioned ...

It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all. Not that much surprises us anymore.

There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places — but ...

The Texas Historical Commission’s slogan is “Real Places Telling Real Stories.” But with the Republican-led state Legislature’s relentless efforts to suppress American history, what passes for real ...

The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Texas, its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose ...

Introduction: Home in slavery -- Demarcating home and labor : Montpelier Plantation, Virginia -- Concealing for privacy and protection : Stagville Plantation, North Carolina -- Rooting one's people : ...