T he 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 ...

Country band Lady Antebellum will now be named Lady A in an effort to distance themselves from the former name’s pre-Civil War connotations.“After much personal reflection, band discussion ...

Moss Neck Manor, a 9,000-square-foot antebellum house on 288 acres near Fredericksburg, is listed on both the Virginia and national registers of historic places.The house is largely original and ...

Indeed, the "Antebellum era" is an oft-used historical term that refers to the pre-Civil War South, which had a robust economy thanks to the widespread use of slavery.

Abbott’s embrace of Antebellum-era constitutional theories might have once earned him universal condemnation, but in 2024 it earned him almost unanimous praise from his fellow Republicans.

In American history, the "antebellum" era (literally, "before the war") refers to the period of the 19th century before the Civil War. With the Fugitive Slave Act in full swing, it was the zenith ...

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 ...

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 optics of housing JCPS at the Yum! Brands' headquarters, in a building carrying echoes of the Antebellum South, is not a good look.

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 ...