For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the  New ...

Further evidence of what NPS has in store at the Jefferson Memorial can be found a few yards to the southwest along the Tidal ...

Jefferson pitcher Kailey Strauch runs the line before facing Randolph in Monday's high school softball contest in Randolph.

Every family has its ghosts – psychological or literal, pleasant or unpleasant. Old Virginia families are no exception. The Randolph family of Colonial Virginia helped shape the customs and ...

Tess Taylor is the great-great-granddaughter of Bennett Taylor. Bennett Taylor is the grandson of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the oldest grandson of Thomas Jefferson. No one questions this.

“Thomas Jefferson definitely had an influence ... Throughout the book, Yeck delves into the personality of Randolph Jefferson, his life at Snowden, and the dynamics between him and his brother.

The first thing white people did after Nat Turner's violent slave insurrection in 1831 was round up more than 120 black people and kill them. But the next thing white people did was surprising.

The police's body cam footage shows her in an impaired state as she name dropped her boss, Andy Cohen, and, ironically, ...

Robert Carter Nicholas IV, a descendant of the local administrator of the 18th-century Williamsburg Bray School, visited Williamsburg on Monday and took a tour of the restored school building that ...