Brandy Station Battlefield, site of the biggest cavalry battle of the Civil War and Virginia’s newest state park, now has a ...

But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...

James Dodson’s book about the Great Wagon Road explored York County’s segment of this rutted pathway for settlers heading ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Stone Mountain Park is home of the biggest Confederate monument in America, and one group wants to keep it that way forever.

In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Harrison resident Eric Schmitt was well aware of his family’s unique lineage growing up. The 55-year-old is a descendent of ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...