An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... were up in the attic of the house, which is now the Glencoe ...

Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball thought to have been used during the English Civil War. The group were ... 1645 Battle of Inverlochy. House cancels rest of votes for ...

Time to get out. It was beyond time to get out of my house. The kids had been in school for a little over two […] ...

“How do I get to Ball’s Bluff—the Civil War site?” I ask a docent at the visitors’ center in Leesburg, Virginia ... furnace where they were making cannonballs for [the Revolutionary ...

From the 1760s until the Civil War, runaway slave ads in the Virginia and North Carolina newspapers ... Allison Shelley On the outside wall of Dan Sayers’ office at American University is ...

A piece of American history has been unearthed at the Liberia House, one of the most historically significant sites in Northern Virginia.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

Rep. Mike Bost, Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, backs VA's staff reduction goals but promises close oversight of the moves. House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost doesn ...

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 ...