Richmond history is often aligned most significantly with the Civil War ... Revolutionary War. The weekend’s events included explanations of women and Native Americans during the Revolution ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia ... such as this was uncommon during the Civil War.

However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state. Virginia was the site of more than 100 battles, according to historical data from the National Archives Catalog .

After beginning his career as a civil rights lawyer, he helped usher in an era of African American leadership in the former ...

Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond). Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War ...

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.

Henry Marsh, a longtime Virginia lawmaker and first Black mayor of Richmond, has died. He served as Richmond mayor from 1977 ...

The bill would repeal a change to the Virginia code implemented in 1950 to allow Confederate organizations to operate ...

George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond ... in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and in Washington Territory. When Virginia seceded from ...

There is a renewed debate in Virginia over whether Confederate organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy should be exempt from paying certain property and real estate taxes.