It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

One score and 12 years ago, a determined director and thousands of reenactors brought forth an epic film based on an historical novel chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. Now the New Ulm Film Society ...

Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend's service for the first Black mayor ...

Once the arsenal of the Confederacy and a manufacturer of shells during both World Wars, Tredegar ceased operations for good ...

Shutterstock These Places Aren’t Just Old Fields with Historical Markers If you grew up in Virginia, you probably had a ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

Nestled in the heart of West Virginia, Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is a hidden gem that’s been quietly minding its ...