The Richmond Times-Dispatch traces its beginnings to 1850 with the founding of the Richmond Dispatch by James A. Cowardin. In ...

A stricter enforcement of the law had been a provision of the Compromise of 1850 as a concession to Southern ... Minkins was born a slave in Norfolk, Virginia (his birthdate has never been ...

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is operated by the Virginia Historical Society. The society's mission is to present Virginia's history in its entirety through inclusive storytelling.

Virginia and New England ... The woman always is the conservative element in society, and tends to cling to old ways long after they have been discarded by the men. The result is that, in the ...

“After 1850, Canada becomes the goal,” Traci Manning, the Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s curator of ... 11 siblings were enslaved on a West Virginia plantation. Garlick escaped north ...

Titles of nobility create castes within society where title holders receive ... This was not to be the case in the United States. As the great Virginia legal scholar St. George Tucker (1752 ...

For more than 40 years, Cremation Society of Virginia has continued to serve Virginians both online and in person via three separate locations, Chantilly, Charlottesville and Richmond. Whether you ...

Hutchinson's charges constituted a frontal attack on the spiritual authority of both the church and society ... that freedom had its limits. By 1850 he was appointed archbishop of New York.

In West Virginia the Kaleidoscope afterschool program has integrated ... their lessons and how to use the Global Competence Matrix to look at student work. Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared ...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor, a history professor at the University of Virginia ... Society for “A Continental History of the United States, 1763-1850.” ...

These small towns in the Alleghenies of West Virginia and Pennsylvania are often overlooked but have many hidden gems.

In a rare case of alleged voter fraud in Virginia, an avid Trump supporter admitted to voting early in 2023, then going to the polls again to see if he could vote twice. Firefighting credentials ...