Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

A free outdoor interpretive program will be held today, Sunday and Monday at 8:30 p.m. on the courthouse steps across from ...

click image for close-up John Murray, the fourth earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia at the start of the American Revolution, was simultaneously one of the most hated and most revered ...

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it ...

Many students of American history know that ... fourth Earl of Dunmore, as governor. He became a slave owner, prosecuted “Lord Dunmore’s War” against the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution ... s royal governor, Lord Dunmore, in a bind.