There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

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

Virginia & The Forging of a Nation at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture explores Virginia’s pivotal role in America’s ...

Many students of American history know that the Revolutionary ... appointment in 1771 of the Scot John Murray, fourth Earl of ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. It’s been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in ...

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) explores the Commonwealth’s important role in the American Revolution, according to museum leaders.

Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns is headed to Richmond to preview his new docuseries, “The American Revolution” at Altria Theater on Sunday. “The American Revolution,” is a six-part ...