Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Cruise along a stunning road with plenty of incredible stops and views of the Potomac River. This parkway is a gem you need ...

For decades, Mount Vernon’s two main newspapers carried their party affiliations in their names. The bulk of these pre-Civil War papers are blunt political screeds that don’t make for good reading ...

In his later years, he became more sympathetic to the abolitionist movement and in a 1799 will ordered his Mount Vernon slaves freed ... nation through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation ...

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

Approximately 200 Newark area residents, along with Civil War reenactors and public officials, gathered to rededicate the ...

While loading up three ships bound for the New World, the English imagined the incredible profits from the resources across ...

After the war’s end in 1783, the tent and the rest of Washington’s military equipment went into storage at his Mount Vernon estate ... During the Civil War, Arlington was taken by the Union ...