In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Rev. H.K. Matthews can't speak with that bullhorn baritone he once possessed, but the impact of his legacy speaks louder than ...

The big picture: The most common metrics classifying Virginia as the South are the symbolic boundary of the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S ... birthplace of American slavery than its culture.

The Confederacy was an area of slave-holding states below the Mason-Dixon line that seceded from the union over the issue of wanting to keep slavery in place, leading to the U.S. Civil War.

They came from far and wide — a sea of men. None was rich but each had dressed immaculately in a dark suit with polished ...

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

Unlike Davis’ Mississippi and the other cotton states of the Deep South, Virginia, the most populous state below the Mason-Dixon line ... as it was by the slave states of Maryland and Virginia.

In 1863, African American farmer James Warfield and his family were living freely on 13 acres of land above the Mason-Dixon line, earning a living from ... to believe they were free from the horror of ...

the line of separation between the Northern (free) and the Southern (slave) states, the two sides in the Civil War. It was plotted in the wilderness by two English astronomers, Charles Mason (1728–86) ...