Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

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When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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Whether oozing with extravagant opulence or dripping with Southern charm, these mansions and plantations are worthy of a visit.

Inspired by the podcast of the same name, Human Resources is an attempt by award-winning producer Renay Richardson and Oxford ...

America is a melting pot of people — and today — more than one million Italian Americans can trace their history back to a ...

Leaving the Plantation Slave quarters like these, at Evergreen Plantation, Louisiana, were often one- or two-room wood cabins and housed families.

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