Join the National Park Service and Raising the Shade from 12:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 15, at Booker T. Washington National Monument. A free seminar will take place ...
The Library of Virginia and Virginia Opera will be presenting a discussion panel and performance of "Intelligence." ...
This week, The Washington Post reported that a textbook for use in Virginia elementary schools claims that "thousands of Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks, including two black battalions ...
In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.
As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862, they endured a march that stretched more than 12 miles. Eager to lighten their load in harsh ...
A new monument honoring 70 Black men from Franklin County who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War was ...