Two dozen white-columned antebellum mansions and other historic homes of Natchez will be open to the public during the city's annual Spring Pilgrimage, March 10-April 14.The homes include house museums like Stanton Hall and the House on Ellicott Hill, along with private homes like Green...

The Longwood Plantation in Natchez has been selected Mississippi's top architectural site by voters participating in a survey organized by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects.David Hardy, the chapter president, says the list of 12 favorite landmarks shows Mississippians lean toward history,...

It's lovely to visit a garden on a spring day, surrendering to the scents, colors, and the sounds of birds chirping or the breeze rustling a dogwood tree heavy with blossoms.But there's also something to be said for taking a close look, guided by an...

A month after Michael Berkow arrived from Los Angeles to become police chief in this city of moss-draped oaks and antebellum mansions, Savannah officials learned that he came with some baggage: a lawsuit accusing him of sexual impropriety at the LAPD.But the mayor and other...

In the following essay, Scott documents the dissatisfaction of many Southern women with the restrictive roles assigned to them in the Old South.

In the following essay, Yarborough contends that Frederick Douglass's reinterpretation and exaltation of a slave rebellion in his novella The Heroic Slave is subverted by the underlying prejudices of the white, masculine worldview.

In the following excerpt, Ridgely observes myth-making qualities in the novels of the Old South—romantic works that elaborate themes of Southern uniqueness, manifest destiny, and separatism.