Charlottesville: An American Story” by Deborah Baker tells the history of the violent protests that occurred during ...

Charlottesville’s statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, as well as a one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacagawea ...

Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E ... statues of Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the ...

Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson would come down Saturday. City workers also had begun to cut shrubbery and trees to allow for the removal, but city leaders had remained mum on ...

as well as to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. “For many years, citizens have voiced concerns about our street names,” explained Councilmember Janice Miller.

Ridgewood: During the Ridgewood Pride Marketplace, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 7 at Memorial Park, Van Neste Square, the Pride ceremony at 1 p.m. will include an LGBTQ celebration featuring live ...

In the early morning of June 28, 1969, gays and lesbians who were tired of being bullied and harassed by New York City police fought back after a raid of the Stonewall Inn in the city's Greenwich ...

“If you’re interested in straight American history, there’s an audio tour on the Lee men,” she said. “If your interests run to the women who made a difference here, there’s an audio ...

Then came J.E.B. Stuart. Then a Robert E. Lee bust, along with seven other Confederates, tucked inside the Virginia Capitol, at House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn’s request. “The Confederacy’s ...

He was also the uncle of Robert E. Lee; and while the Lees lived at what was then called Sully Plantation, the farm was supported by the labor of enslaved African Americans. However, although ...