Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

Map of this Revolutionary War Road Trip Itinerary To help you plan ... It’s home to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Here, the Patriots fought hard to defend ...

Precolonial byway was important Native American trade route later used by military in American Revolution and Civil War, ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

A weekend getaway or a day trip from nearby Washington, D.C, Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA, or Harrisburg, PA to Winchester, VA, are all within a […] ...

Even now, it is tempting to barrel down Shooting Creek Road, near Floyd, Virginia, the most treacherous ... added to the country mix since the Civil War. A small crowd looked on.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, the White House sought to freeze the legal debate by reminding ...