During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Defenders of Confederate monuments have argued that the ... Mitchell further detailed the enthusiasm of the crowd assembled in Richmond. “Cheer after cheer rang out upon the air as fair women waved ...

Virginia’s secession inspired its western counties to go their own way, acting under the U.S. Constitution, as the Confederate states said they were. By summer 1862, following two conventions ...

However, the message is of special significance to the black community. America has a history of depriving Black people of ...

Historic Williamsburg in Virginia is the place to see history come alive. There are so many great things to do in Greater Williamsburg with kids including Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement ...

A bill to end Virginia’s special tax exemptions for Confederate organization passed its final General Assembly hurdle Friday and is headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who vetoed the same measure last year ...

This is the second time this bill has gone through the General Assembly, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a version last year ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

A rumor that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended a decision to fly a Confederate flag at Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters circulated online in early January 2025. We received reader ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a ...

Virginia Democrats are once again advocating for legislation aimed at stripping tax-exempt status from several organizations linked to Richmond’s Confederate history.

Lee declined, saying he could not fight against his home state ... anyone removing Florida's Confederate memorials. How many have been removed? Statue of woman with Confederate flag removed ...