During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A park ranger for Richmond National Battlefield Park didn’t know his acting experience would come into play when he started ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A bill aims to help Virginians ... more accessible and making justice more achievable. House Bill 1865, otherwise known as the “Virginia Access to Justice Act ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Gen. John Magruder, a Virginia-born Confederate general, took charge of Texas defenses from late 1862 onward, and led a ...

From files of Richmond papers of Tuesday ... upon us. A word to the Virginia Legislature. Virginia is threatened with the combined efforts of the enemy. His great armies are making a new hunt ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...

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

He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia. “My grandfather described ... “‘On the morning of April 3, 1865,” Higginbotham said whilst citing the words of her grandfather ...

From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 16 ... G.W. IMBODEN, of the Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry, was seriously wounded in the recent demonstration on Gordonsville. He is now in a fair way to recover.

Why it matters: It pays homage to Virginia Union University, Richmond's private HBCU ... The school was founded in 1865 to give newly emancipated Virginians educational opportunities.