Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America's most lavish displays of opulence: An ornamental garden ...

The UK plans to abolish its 'non-dom' tax regime, causing concerns about a potential exodus of wealthy individuals. The ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka’s presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

A scene of conflict that was lost to the ages has been unearthed, assembling an indigenous perspective on events at the very ...

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...

The Kingsley Plantation in Jacksonville, Florida, is different from any other plantation I’ve been to in the South, and it’s ...

I remember first visiting Drayton Hall when I was writing my Civil War novel, Shades of Gray. The tour had a lasting effect ...

As Kokonas notes, “plans were implemented to smuggle cinchona seeds” and use them on remaining colonial plantations. Walker and Nesbitt relate one such (thwarted) covert mission: In 1851 ...

Indigo Plantations and Science, therefore, deserves to be read as one of the finest studies on "colonial knowledge" that has been published in recent years." ...

The Heritage Humane Society's annual golf tournament was back in full swing on Friday, Sept. 13, at Kingsmill Resort, raising ...

Switzerland was never a colonial power, yet through its traders, mercenaries, anthropologists and missionaries, it contributed to colonial expansion, sparking debates about how to confront this lesser ...

Both leading candidates in Saturday's presidential election are promising to give land to the country's hundreds of thousands ...