Voters in Virginia will head to the polls this November to pick a new governor. Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, ...

On clear nights, the loch mirrors the night sky, making it a perfect stargazing spot, far enough from the city's light ...

Democratic lawmakers in Virginia picked vetoes by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) Wednesday to try to override and push for gun ...

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

When spare time was available, the men folk hunted for deer, cottontail rabbits, quail, pigeons, and ducks. The Incubator ...

This week in history; the Civil War comes to an end in North Carolina; Paul Revere makes his famed midnight ride; the pencil erasure is born.

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

When Grant became president in 1869 and tried to crack down on the Ku Klux Klan and ... Williams professor of American ...

The center, based at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut, with detachments in Norfolk, Virginia, and San Diego ..

Today historians at Jefferson’s estate in Monticello, Virginia, host tours that paint ... several years later — he was in office between 1869 to 1877 — he worked to abolish slavery and ...