The city was once the capital of the Confederacy. RICHMOND, Virginia. -- On Richmond’s distinguished Monument Avenue, a statue of Robert E. Lee and his horse stand triumphant, just one of the ...

The city council in Richmond, Virginia ... down or modify its Confederate statutes. Virginia state law allows local governments to erect war monuments, but prohibits the local governments from ...

Virginia law prohibits the removal of monuments to war veterans ... chief executive of Richmond’s Civil War Museum; and Gregg Kimball, director of education and outreach at the Library of ...

An acre of land owned by the city of Richmond contains potentially hundreds of unmarked graves, some of which could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War, according to a study ...

I have photographed dozens of Confederate monuments since moving to Richmond, Virginia ... just north of Williamsburg, Virginia, on land that got claimed as a military base during World War II.

The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing ... during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War, from its base at the intersection of the city’s Hermitage ...

I had never lived south of Brooklyn, New York, in the United States until about seven years ago, when I moved with my child to Richmond ... the monuments after the end of the Civil War, from ...

Cities with Confederate history are debating whether or not to remove Civil War monuments ... the question in Richmond - do you think Richmond should remove its Confederate monuments?

In January, Richmond’s city council donated the banished ... would have serious ramifications—not only in Virginia, and not only for Civil War monuments, but also for “conservation and preservation ...

Several localities in Virginia have taken down Civil War monuments or are in the process ... Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. A judge last month ruled in favor of Northam but left ...

Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation designed to prevent localities from moving Civil War monuments. The Daily Press reports that the measure passed the Senate this week on a 21-17 vote.

As statues of Confederate generals have been toppled or ordered down across the American South, all still stand in West Virginia, the only state born out of the American Civil War. One hundred ...