Before railroads, steamboats were the main way to traverse Florida. Native Americans who left the Everglades eventually started “Indian villages” particularly around Miami, to attract tourists. Long ...

Robert Gould Shaw, the young white Boston Brahmin who died leading the all-black ... Henry James and Harriet Beecher Stowe. With its legacy of classicism, and its abundant supply of marble and ...

She died the very next year.” Tripp added that Jackson would’ve been very disappointed with the novel’s reception. As an admirer of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who’d written the 1852 antislaver ...

Ferocious in debate (the author Harriet Beecher Stowe likened his forensic style ... The following June, exhausted in body and spirit, Douglas died at age 48, just seven weeks after the fall ...

Uncle Tiff,” a sculpture by Eugene Warburg, might be the first Black “sculptural subject” created by a Black artist, ...

The truth of Black men serving as minutemen has been available for decades. Ardent abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution" in 1855. Believing ...

Glass-bottom boats plied Silver Springs in the 1870s. Northerners including Harriet Beecher Stowe came down for steamboat trips on wild rivers like the Ocklawaha with its giant cypress trees ...