Virginia Mercury22h
What would a Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area look like?
National Park Service seeks input on potential designation highlighting the historic, environmental and cultural significance ...
RVA Mag18h
Revolution on Display. Protest on the Sidewalk. Welcome to Richmond.
Virginia & The Forging of a Nation at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture explores Virginia’s pivotal role in America’s ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch15h
City to search for bodies of Confederate soldiers under Manchester memorial
Records show city officials in 2023 spent $16,000 to upgrade a Confederate marker, located on Wise Street in Manchester, that ...
Revolutionary War spy James Lafayette now has his monument
The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
3 Middle Tennessee counties awarded state grants for protection of Civil War sites
The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund.
Danville Register & Bee21h
Gilbert’s Restaurant in Chatham, 'harbor for those fighting injustice,' named landmark
The restaurant in Chatham was constructed during the era of Jim Crow segregation that was once a gas station, store, tourist ...
RVA Mag18hOpinion
What Trump’s Monument Order Could Mean for Richmond
President Trump's new executive order calls for the review and possible restoration of monuments removed since 2020, ...