What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

West Virginia is chock full of history, not the least of which is this local watering hole built where two U.S. presidents ...

I knew how to read cursive, but I’d never read these old fashioned documents before,” said Sue Bell. The Wharton family stumbled upon over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s ...

The project was a joint effort of Civil War Trails, the town of Cape Charles, Virginia Tourism Corp. and ... the Freedmen’s Bureau in Chincoteague before winning a seat in the House of Delegates ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

Russell Riley co-chairs the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs ...

Several Virginia color bearers who carried the flag were wounded or killed before it was captured by ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May ...

A piece of American history has been unearthed at the Liberia House, one of the most historically significant sites in Northern Virginia.

by Civil War standards, bloodless. The Confederacy spared no expense defending cities like Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Vicksburg, Mississippi ...

President Donald Trump in his first 100 days tested that system like rarely before, signing dozens of executive orders, ...

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often ...