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.” ...

In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a poetic chronicling of her creek-side ...

Family connections made in the archival research add "another dimension to understanding our collective history," says vice president of the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA.

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

Packard ads used to famously suggest that the best way to persuade you to buy the company’s product was to have you “ask the ...

Once filming wrapped, the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society, a non-profit ... Also known as Bellevue, this building was built in 1850 as a private home for slave trader Daniel Smith ...

The public is invited to a ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Jefferson County Administration Center, 729 Maple St ...

14 With the advantage of the Garland’s connections to white society and Elizabeth’s ... white woman named Mary Lincoln. 15 In 1850, a free Black man named James Keckly, who Elizabeth had met back in ...

READ more about his work… (1954) Ang Lee in 2016 – credit, The Society of Motion Picture and ... on this day in 1850, the first National Women’s Rights Convention in the United States ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Virginia's decision ahead of the Nov. 5 election to purge from its voter rolls about ...

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