Abraham Lincoln took direct control of the Army and Navy at Norfolk in 1862. He even led a recon mission on the James River to capture the city. (History) As the United States marks Presidents Day ...

Ringle wrote the 1998 book “Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy.” The 240-page work is about shipboard life in the Civil War.

Work on the USS Macon site is just one example of efforts to preserve, investigate and inform the public about maritime heritage within our ocean and Great Lakes waters,” writes ...

Liverpool’s waterfront reads like a record of America’s rise. Tobacco from Virginia passed through its warehouses, passenger liners sailed regularly to New York and the 1915 sinking of the ...

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Feb. 1, 1832: Education reformer ...

Abigail Davis Spanberger was sworn in as Virginia's 75th and first female governor. Spanberger's inauguration was part of a Democratic sweep that included the state's first Black attorney general and ...

The historic Bacon’s Castle, the oldest building in Virginia and the oldest brick dwelling on the continent, is set to ...

Vincent Carter, 72, has lived his entire life in Gum Springs, Virginia. The town is within walking distance of George Washington’s Mount Vernon — an estate where Carter’s ancestors were enslaved — and ...