The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

In the several decades following the admission of the first Black students in the mid-1960s, the enrollment of Mary ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

The Park Authority has many buildings that have historic significance. Each year, they strive to tell the stories of the men ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

A bill that would allow casinos to open in Fairfax County passed the Senate Tuesday.

A park ranger for Richmond National Battlefield Park didn’t know his acting experience would come into play when he started ...

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying ...

China moved into Sudan’s oil industry after Chevron Corp. left in 1992 amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in 2011 ...

escaped on the Underground Railroad and returned South after the Civil War to win election to the House of Delegates. Or Alfred W. Harris, born into slavery in Fairfax County, who introduced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by ...