Virginia City’s boom in the later half of the nineteenth century brought some of Nevada’s early Black residents to the ...

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

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

President Donald Trump honored Black Americans’ vast contributions to the nation during a White House celebration Thursday that coincides with his first full month back in office. Trump spent that ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...