On Christmas Eve, thousands of people will enjoy the annual spectacle of bonfires on the levee in the St. James Parish towns ...

Mississippi is a state steeped in history, with a rich cultural heritage that spans centuries. From the Civil War to the ...

This 1850 Mississippi plantation house was a perfect location for a deep relic hunt. We unearthed coins, buttons, and other items lost for over a century—but things got strange when we started ...

Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of ...

LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along ...

Yet with centuries of archaeological artifacts and one cemetery visible on Mississippi River maps from the 1800s, independent ...