On June 10, 1963, when myriads of peaceful protesters descended on the streets of Danville, they didn’t know they were ...

Petersburg National Battlefield marks the sites of the Civil War's final major campaign. The Union's nearly year-long siege of Petersburg severed vital Confederate supply lines to Richmond. Visitors ...

The ongoing stalemate over the potential preservation of the historic Old Bennett School in Manassas has ratcheted up fresh ...

The town of Boone has a new roadside marker telling the story of a Union general’s raid through Western North Carolina in the ...

In today’s episode of the Potomac Local News Podcast, Uriah Kiser covers graduation week in Stafford County, free summer ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

As Northern Virginia’s rapid growth — particularly data center development — transforms open land and local identity, some ...

Memorial Day is widely accepted to have begun in 1868 when the holiday was first widely observed as Decoration Day. It was ...

Capt. Daniel Eggers, killed in action in 2004, and his family honored at ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial ...

Relic hunters scouring a farm field south of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were turning up the usual Civil War artifacts when ...

Another Memorial Day is here. For one Monday in May, work is forgotten, replaced by a day at the beach or lake, backyard cookouts, and savoring the unofficial start of the summer season.

The discovery of remains from the Revolution and the Civil War happens with surprising frequency at battlefields and hospital ...