Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...

Republicans return to Antebellum era theories to justify Trump’s civil war push The crisis alongside the Texas border is just the latest instance of Republicans looking back to the Antebellum era ...

The building opened as a "planter's bank" during the antebellum period before becoming home to the National Freedman's Savings and Trust Company following Emancipation.

Description This lesson details the intersection of Antebellum era newspapers with the institution of slavery. The lesson, which features Virginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul ...

As we show in a forthcoming paper, episodes like the one involving New York’s Free School Society were ubiquitous: States in the antebellum period routinely denied funding requests from ...

We Fought Over American National Identity During the Antebellum Period. The Fight Should Be Ongoing. A new work of history finds the best antidote to today’s authoritarian politics in Daniel ...

The building opened as a "planter's bank" during the antebellum period before becoming home to the National Freedman's Savings and Trust Company following Emancipation.

A new novel by a local writer is now appearing on the shelves of Tucson’s bookstores. : Here’s a hint about the story: : Two Texas antebellum plantations; two neighboring families, both slave ...

Gun regulations in the antebellum period, however, were not all about bans: At least 11 states enacted licensing laws that allowed—usually under some form of supervision—enslaved people and ...