Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy, ...

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 ...

When the enslaved people at the Patton Plantation, now known as the Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, were ...

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The remains of dozens of people found at a construction site in Texas this year are mostly likely those of African-Americans who were forced to work on a plantation there around the turn of the 20th ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — He couldn't read and he spent half his life in slavery. Once freed, though, Charlie Brown built a business domain in Brazoria County and eventually purchased the plantation ...

An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...

The Witte’s new CEO will launch Texas Museums 360, an inquiry-based science curriculum for Texas Schools. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Witte Museum San Antonio’s Witte Museum is exploring the dark history ...

Mike Keller, father of Christian reality television star Anna Duggar, has drawn criticism and ridicule for comments he made about slavery last month at a Fort Worth-area church. Updated at 8:22 a.m.

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