Smithfield, Virginia, is full of charm, with historic homes, scenic riverfront parks, quirky pig statues, local shops, and ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.

The Black soldiers marched south with Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant’s campaign, which included fierce battles at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River and Cold Harbor, then across ...

A year later, Richmond joined the automobile manufacturing game. R.W. Coffee & Sons, makers of heavy machinery, gas engines and transmission gears, developed a 1-cylinder, 12-horsepower touring car.

What landscape architects need to know. Waterstreet Studio creates a landscape plan for historic site of former jail and two ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is the final resting place of U.S. Presidents, Confederate leaders, and thousands ...

The Richmond Fire Department and other local organizations will be hosting an event in honor of Virginia’s first Black firefighters.

In April, more than 200 Civil War and history enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada converged on the Andrew ...

Morgan’s 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio was a costly mistake for the Confederate Army. His history in Lexington ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...