The original idea of "sister cities" was most prominently described in 1956, when former World War II general and acting ...

Defense chief Pete Hegseth is restoring to West Point Military Academy a giant painting of rebel Gen. Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave ...

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) is unveiling a new exhibit called "Un/Bound: Free Virginians, 1619-1865," which tells the stories of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the ...