On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia ... a historian at the Richmond National Battlefield who has written several books on the Civil War.

Reconstruction policies officially end. The South codifies and enforces segregation. Violations of black civil rights will not command national attention again until after World War II.

RICHMOND — General Assembly Friday checklist: breakfast, honor Black lawmakers from Reconstruction; midmorning, consider bill to protect Confederate statues; lunchtime, vote on whether to strip ...

Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war. "This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction ... the English civil war, which ...

During his eulogy, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., himself a former Richmond mayor and civil rights lawyer, recounted Marsh’s mentorship. As a student at Virginia Union University, Marsh testified ...