In his latest book, A Perfect Frenzy, local author Andrew Lawler reexamines the America Revolution and spotlights a lesser-known story from the United State's founding.

Year-round, Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown present gallery exhibits, rare artifacts and films that recount the experiences of Africans and African Americans in ...

Donald Trump gives his first speech as president at his inauguration to a front row filled with powerful and controversial people. We look at what he had to say.

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

After more than a century of neglect, 1,772 Black South African servicemen who died in World War I have finally been honored with a memorial in Cape Town. These men, members of the Cape Town Labor ...

SOUTH BOSTON - Commemorative events for the 244th anniversary of the Revolutionary War ‘Crossing of the Dan’ begin on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at the Halifax-South Boston Museum of Fine ...

As you march today as an expression of freedom, think back to the American Civil War 1861-1865. Conventional wisdom would ...