The Mahone Cemetery began as a burial ground for people enslaved on a Georgia plantation — and today may hold 300 or more burials, though only a fraction are marked. Among them are men born into ...

Rick Rojas, who is based in Georgia as The Times’s bureau chief for the American South, has spent time in Savannah as a ...

A $35 million estate tops Georgia's housing market. See which luxury properties made the list of the 10 most expensive homes ...

Minstrel shows featured white performers with darkened faces performing outrageously racist skit. Northerners found the shows ...

In 1850, Andrew Benjamin Tarbutton enslaved 25 people in central Georgia. A year later, he purchased more than a dozen ...

The Gullah Geechee community has deep roots in Jacksonville. Beyond the streets and shorelines lives a story of survival, ...

In 1861, during the American Civil War when Hilton Head Island in South Carolina fell to Union troops, hundreds of enslaved African Americans escaped from their former enslavers to Union-held ...

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

The Thomasville Garden Club, Inc. is flinging into spring with its Nature’s Wonders Symposium on March 21st, featuring ...

In reality, the spectacular glow appears to have been the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying overhead, carrying Starlink satellites into Earth’s orbit. Residents spotted the glow between 5:50 a.m. and 6 ...

Fort Hawkins in Macon played a key role in Georgia’s early American history and continues to educate visitors as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary.

Dairus Rucker, "Southern State of Mine" Darius Rucker doesn't need to pinpoint a specific place when he closes his eyes and ...