The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

Image Drawing extensively on Willie Lee Rose’s “Rehearsal for Reconstruction ... who came to Georgia’s Sea Islands with humanitarian intentions, purchased 11 plantations in the strip ...

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage behind.

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

He has family in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Georgia. From 2021 ... NATO and wrangled the terms of the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe. A portrait of King George III hung ...

Conor Dougherty A worker picks coffee berries at a plantation in Anolaima ... as news reports emerged about the federal operations, Georgia Hampton, a 31-year-old podcast producer, said as ...

Carbo is the godfather of the Okeeheelee track – still riding, still winning and, most importantly to him, still coaching ...

Due to its significant role during Reconstruction, the State House became a National ... spectacular Blue Ridge Mountain view and the three states of both Carolinas and Georgia on a clear day. The ...

Athens native Michael Thurmond shares the anti-slavery feelings of Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Some businesses near Georgia Street downtown between the Indiana Convention Center and Gainbridge Fieldhouse are bracing for significant reconstruction that could impact ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...