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 ...

When Elmerton Cemetery began laying people to rest in the 1850s, much of Hampton’s history was yet to be written. As the Civil War erupted in 1861, Fort Monroe became a Union stronghold as Virginia ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on August 30. Check what happened today in history here.

No one remembers Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) visiting rural Pike County. That has to change if he wants to be president.

This week, we speak with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Also, professional storyteller James Froemel invents quirky characters, like a sign maker who can’t spell.

Triumph, Tragedy and the Shaping of the American West” is a richly told, vibrant, insightful epic of the frontier that begins on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains, not, as you might think ...

Six new sites along a 50-mile route between Charleston and Matewan, West Virginia will commemorate the 1921 Miners' March to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Explore Alton's historic contribution through Senators David Baker, James Semple, and Lyman Trumbull, who influenced U.S. law and helped abolish slavery.