This year, the Woodville plantation turns 250 years old. It's one of the local locations that held slaves in the Pittsburgh ...

The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Trump spent that month abolishing decades of diversity efforts throughout the federal government and beyond, removing many ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving ...

An attempt to turn Oak Hill, the Loudoun County home of President James Monroe, into a state park nearly became history in ...

when Linwood Holton became the first Republican governor in Virginia since Reconstruction by defeating Democrat Bill Battle, son of a former governor. “Henry and his group supported Holton ...

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

Chicago Bears team owner Virginia McCaskey sat in the box on game ... "We will always have the grand memories of the First Lady of Chicago sports," Hampton said.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend’s service for the first Black mayor of Richmond recalled Henry L. Marsh III’s trailblazing career ...