Shutterstock Edwin Booth Robert Todd Lincoln was nearly crushed between heavy train cars at Jersey City station when he ...

Wikimedia Commons/The Illustrated London News Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers Joseph Trammell was born enslaved in Virginia ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

Patrick Henry will never be forgotten — “Liberty or Death” ensures that — but he’s less remembered than his peers who became president, partly because he never served in that office, and also because ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were released but a Randolph County native was executed.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Virginia's bid to scuttle a lawsuit challenging an 1869 state constitutional provision that imposes a lifetime voting ban on convicted felons, one of ...

Their convictions triggered the disenfranchisement provision of Virginia's constitution adopted in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War of 1861-1865 stating that no person ... proceed against state ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Celebrate the Fourth of July with activities and patriotic events in Virginia City. Start with a ride on the historic V&T Railroad. The train ride is an immersive 35-minute experience narrated by ...

The summer campaign season launched Saturday in Richmond as Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears heated up the race for governor.

Located just outside Richmond, Virginia, Tuckahoe offers accessible travel options, low cost of living, and suburban tranquility.

The majority of Richmond voters do not want their former mayor to be Virginia's next lieutenant governor, according to unofficial primary election results from the Virginia Department of Elections.