Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

The Revolutionary War, at first, barely touched Virginia. Six years in however, everything changed for this most populous ...

The Virginia War Memorial will honor the memories of nearly 12,000 Virginia men and women killed in combat since World War II ...

Explore stunning artworks, historic architecture, Main Street charm, and so much more in this one-of-a-kind Virginia town.

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic ...

What happened next on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon, plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would kill about 150,000 people, leave 17,000 missing and lead to foreign ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools based on race is unconstitutional. Virginia Beach NAACP president Dr. Eric Majette, 62 ...

Syria is facing the trauma of a long civil war with a weak and inadequate healthcare network, with barely 100 psychiatrists. The UN estimates that one in 10 Syrians suffers from a mild or moderate ...