J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

A landlord with a keen interest in history has claimed he has uncovered evidence his pub may have existed at the time a ...

Echoes of the Past' is an article series exploring connections between the WVU sports, the state of West Virginia, and ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order Monday restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg. The North Carolina base was renamed Fort ...

The Pentagon will change the name of the North Carolina military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Trump while honoring a different eponym. Defense ...

in the opening months of the Civil War: West Virginia. In one fell swoop, Virginia — the 12th-largest state by population, at 8.7 million — would vault into the top 10, supplanting North ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

It was established under Article VI of the West Virginia Constitution following the state's split from Virginia during the American Civil War in 1863 ... The Senate president is first in the line of ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

Michael Hopwood experienced his share of discrimination growing up in Compton in southern Los Angeles County in the 1950s and ‘60s. He wasn’t about to let another inequity 45 years later tarnish the ...