J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

There is no denying that Captain John Smith led an extraordinary life. From humble beginnings on a farm to life as a soldier ...

Parents often try to give their little ones the most unique and outlandish names they can to make them stand out from the crowd. Having the same name said over and over again on the register when ...

the Confederacy, and, before that, the genocide and displacement of the Arrohattoc peoples of the Powhatan Confederacy. The uprisings of 2020 brought Richmond’s historical tension out of the shadows ...

W.G. DeSaussure, commander of Confederate batteries on Morris Island ... realized each had planned a secret mission spearheaded by the Powhatan using different captains going to different ...

The river itself is included in the National Park Service’s Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, where John Smith was marched after his capture by Powhatan Confederacy chief ...

Most tribes in Virginia were historically part of the Powhatan Confederacy in the Tidewater area of Virginia, which was governed by Chief Powhatan (Wahunsenakah) when the Europeans arrived in 1607.

RICHMOND — Tri-Hope Life Ministries [Tri-Hope] filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that the Powhatan County Board of Supervisors discriminated on the basis of disability against Tri-Hope and its ...

Powhatan Public Schools Superintendent Beth ... Students who spoke shared their experiences seeing classmates wearing Confederate flag paraphernalia and bragging that they were members of the ...

POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. -- The Powhatan Chapter of the NAACP has demanded the Powhatan County Public Schools take action following an alleged racial discrimination incident that took place at ...

For over a century, a life-size statue of a Confederate soldier has stood atop a towering monument in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The city administrator had considered removing the monument for years.

POWHATAN COUNTY, Va ... campuses for St. Emma’s and St. Francis sat on 2,000 acres of what used to be a Confederate General’s slave plantation that was designed decades prior in 1845.