Once the arsenal of the Confederacy and a manufacturer of shells during both World Wars, Tredegar ceased operations for good ...

A park ranger for Fort Harrison in Henrico didn't know his acting experience would come into play when he started the job.

After beginning his career as a civil rights lawyer, he helped usher in an era of African American leadership in the former ...

“I’m always shocked at all the history that Richmond has the offer,” Pooler said. “For me, working in a Civil War park and then hearing that there’s a huge chunk of Revolutionary War ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

Richmond history is often aligned most significantly with the Civil War. It does, however, boast a history with events from the American Revolution and the Colonies’ separation from England.

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops ...

nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest of eight children born to a prominent Virginia family. Well liked by his ...

Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Richmond has its fair share of Civil War history, but it's also home to a moving and impressive Holocaust museum. Co-founded in 1997 by one of Richmond's youngest ...

The tearing down of statues means different things to historians, activists, and civil rights ... They're waging war on stories," historian Julian Hayter of the University of Richmond told ...