Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

A proposal in the state budget calls for Virginia Commonwealth University to relinquish control of the former First African ...

Alex Askew, D-Virginia Beach, and others persist ... That, to use a word coined shortly before the Civil War, is poppycock. Even if a smaller number of people — including enslaved people ...

The slogan may be "Virginia Is For Lovers", but we say Virginia is for families! There are so many amazing things to do in ...

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.

“The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America,” is a damning indictment of the systemic way that Black people have been the victims of discriminatory taxation, liens, ...

They also visited the historic synagogue in the suburb of Jobar, which was heavily damaged and looted during Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. “May God help us ... Plans for rebuilding and ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

I had such a moment on April 12, 2006, in my course on the American Civil War and Reconstruction ... “Imagine it is April 12, 1865. Richmond has fallen, and the Robert E. Lee has surrendered ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia War Memorial announced that it will commemorate Black History Month with a special program titled “GENERATIONS: African Americans and Legacies of Military ...