The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Hundreds of people attended Saturday’s funeral at a Richmond-area church for Henry L. Marsh III, who died Jan. 23 at age 91, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s largest city said they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa. It comes as Congo’s president called for a massive military ...

After beginning his career as a civil rights lawyer, he helped usher in an era of African American leadership in the former capital of the Confederacy.

Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico (right), during a news conference in Richmond on Jan. 23 ... This is the former capital of the Confederacy,” Scott said. “We have more monuments and roads named after the ...

The organization owns more than a dozen Confederate statues in Virginia ... Askew said during a news conference at the state Capitol in Richmond last week, emphasizing that the legislation ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over Confederate heritage.