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Byline: Cathy Dyson Dec. 2Farms and forests, a portion of tribal land and a piece of a Civil War battlefield and other natural areas are among 1,188 acres in the [...]

APPOMATTOX, Va. -- The following information was released by the National Park Service: Celebrate the holiday season with a historical twist! Hosted in partnership with the Appomattox 1865 Foundation, this [...]

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The following information was released by the City of Alexandria, Virginia: Join us for an evening of historical intrigue and storytelling at Gadsby's Tavern Museum (134 N. [...]

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The following information was released by the City of Alexandria, Virginia: September 9 -15, 2024 What's New Liberation of Paris Garden Party Lloyd House, 220 N. Washington [...]

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The following information was released by the City of Alexandria, Virginia: The City of Alexandria invites the public to participate in the tenth anniversary of the dedication [...]

APPOMATTOX, Va -- The following information was released by the National Park Service: Join Appomattox Court House National Historical Park for a day of 'base ball' (spelled with two words [...]

BLACKSBURG, VA -- The following information was released by the Virginia Tech: By Kelsey Bartlett 6 May 2024 Name:áJillian Sasso College: Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Hometown: Culpeper, Virginia Major: [...]

ORANGE COUNTY: Wilderness Battlefield Coalition has issued the following news release: Wilderness Battlefield, site of a pivotal clash that marked a turning point in the Civil War, was named one [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the office of District of Columbia Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton: On the anniversary of the start of the Civil War -- [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider MATHEWS, Va. -- 'Marxist.' 'Communist.' 'Snake in the grass.' Those epithets might work in, say, Congress. But folks in this conservative waterfront community got fed up [...]

Byline: By I am weary of the exhortation to stop 'rewriting history' in response to efforts to cease honoring Confederate figures, as demanded by the April 30 letter 'Judging by [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell You've probably heard this one: Before the Civil War, Americans felt a stronger allegiance to their state than to the country as a whole. That's why people [...]

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Virginia -- The following information was released by Prince William County (Virginia): After the Battle of First Manassas on July 21, 1861, Ben Lomond House served as [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella; Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND -- Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax), Virginia's longest-serving state senator, will retire at the end of his term in January, closing [...]

Byline: Cathy Dyson Jan. 21The final resting place of Civil War Gen. A.P. Hill has been anything but that, as his remains were put in the ground, dug up and [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff Virginia has been known for having more Confederate memorials than any other state. After all, Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, and the most major [...]

MIDDLETOWN, Va. -- The following information was released by the National Park Service: Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park will offer ranger-guided walks of Civil War army trenches [...]

HARRISONBURG, Va. Gerald Leonard Drake, a Winchester, Virginia man and former Civil War reenactor, pleaded guilty yesterday to mailing threatening letters and planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek [...]

HARRISONBURG, Va. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia: Gerald Leonard Drake, a Winchester, Virginia man and former Civil [...]

APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, Va. -- The following information was released by the National Park Service: National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Regional Director Kirsten Talken-Spaulding has selected James (Jim) Bailey as [...]

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The following information was released by George Mason University: By Shayla Brown When Civil War soldiers were stationed in Northern Virginia, they left behind drawings, written passages, [...]

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The following information was released by the City of Alexandria, Virginia: Saturday, March 25 Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free In recognition of [...]

FAIRFAX, VA -- The following information was released by the City of Fairfax, Virginia: The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, in collaboration with Historic Blenheim and the [...]

Egyptian building at the MCV campus. Photo by Kobi McCray Sarah Hagen, Contributing Writer 'MCV was built and operated using the labor of enslaved people,' stated VCU President Michael Rao [...]

In partnership with Shenandoah University, Bridgewater College Professor of History, Emeritus, Dr. Stephen Longenecker is exploring primary sources of African American commemoration of emancipation in an effort to create a [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo Fairfax County on Tuesday renamed two major highways honoring Confederate generals, ending a months-long process that was part of a larger reckoning over Virginia's veneration of the [...]

Byline: Editorial Board As he has filled appointed positions in Virginia's government, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who took office this year with one eye on a possible bid for [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND -- Ann Hunter McLean, a historian who defends Confederate statues and asserts that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War, has resigned [...]

RICHMOND, VA -- The following information was released by the Virginia Democratic Party: Governor Youngkin's Appointee to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources, Ann McLean, said several disgusting comments on [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo The Fairfax City Council voted to rename 14 streets and highways honoring the Confederacy, part of an ongoing reckoning over race and equity in Virginia that in [...]

2023 FEB 2 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Current study results on Global Views - Industries and Society have been published. [...]

Byline: Edward Helmore The house at 607-601 Oronoco Street in Alexandria, Virginia -- a 226-year-old, six-bedroom, 8,145 sq ft mansion -- appears by every measure a highly desirable place to [...]

Byline: By, Shane Jarvis The statue of General Robert E Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, has finally been removed after standing in Monument [...]

RICHMOND, VA -- The following information was released by the Virginia Tourism Corporation: Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, 2022, is the oldest known commemoration of the end of slavery in [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo On the corner of Confederate Lane and Plantation Parkway in the Civil War-themed housing development of Mosby Woods, a 'Black Lives Matter' lawn sign faces the two [...]