the Virginia lesson included a module about the State Seal, adopted in 1776 at the state’s Constitutional Convention. The article explains that the seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus stepping ...

Royal authorities wanted to send some Colonial lawbreakers to Britain for trial. That incensed Americans, especially ...

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

In 1775, the Continental Congress, foreseeing war with England, signed into existence an army, a navy and a marine landing ...

NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en ...

For hundreds of communities nationwide, plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended ...

"This is a huge national crisis," he said. "Like half the SEAL teams are located in San Diego, the other half are in Virginia Beach. So when you've got half the SEAL teams who are getting exposed ...

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, has died, her family said in an April 25 statement. Giuffre, 41, died near her home in Neergabby, Australia. The cause of death was suicide ...

Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, has died by suicide, her family said.

She "was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse," her family said. Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse ...

As the patriot army drives the British out of Boston in the spring of 1776, Elsbeth Culpepper, a 13-year-old maid, finds herself caught up in the chaos. Her employer, a Loyalist judge, has been ...