The Natchez Garden Club was founded in 1927 (notably just a year after Mitchell began writing Gone With the Wind —why it’s ...

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

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

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.

When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway ... The plantation, roughly 25 miles from Baton Rouge, was billed as the largest antebellum home still standing in ...

Annabelle doll created panic during its tour of Louisiana and New Orleans. Social media was flooded with reports of the doll's disappearance. A plantation home burned down and inmates escaped from ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

There is no question, the enslaved workers at the Nottoway Plantation during the antebellum era were human chattel. They were unpaid and unable to leave. They had no property rights, no rights to ...

After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next. Last week, just days after ...