There’s a chapter in Virginia’s Indigenous history that’s been largely untold. This Saturday, historic Smithfield museum in ...

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

Q: In the Virginia colony, describe those first settlers who come. What are they like? What kind of people come into America for that first settlement? A: We romanticize, I think, the people who ...

In 1587, 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island ... gave birth to the first English child in the New World — Virginia Dare. For comprehensive updates on political developments and ...

Blossoming across the eastern U.S. in spring, redbud trees were notably important during the settlement of the Appalachian ...

Four prehistoric trails once converged where the Coal River joins the Kanawha River, and this lesser-known fact helps set the ...