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 ...

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 ...

Burke, Virginia, now an 11.5 square mile unincorporated section of Fairfax County with a population of roughly 41,000, was fated to disappear in 1951. In that year, the federal Civil Aeronautic ...

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks gave a speech in 1990 for the University’s celebration of Black History Month.

A new National Building Museum exhibit highlights the legacy of Rosenwald Schools. Once common in Maryland and Virginia, these historic buildings helped close the education gap and shaped future civil ...

Dominion Energy’s 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which was ordered by the Trump administration to stop work in December, is now on track for completion by early next year -- but ...

Residents are invited to explore local African American history at the U.S. Colored Troops Interpretive Center in Lexington Park as part of Black History Month observances.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — The West Virginia State Senate voted to pass a bill enforcing federal immigration policy on Monday. Senate Bill 615 is only a couple of provisions, the first of which ...

Dubbed the “baddest bitch in history” by Comedy Central, Bowser became known as one of the Union’s most daring Civil War spies. Literate and underestimated, Bowser worked as an undercover agent from ...