Scholar of white supremacy visits all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed, says Richmond gets it right
In a symbolic rebuke of the American South's racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four ...
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Sandston's inception owed to a World War I munitions factory
Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier ... to the U.S. government shortly after the war ended. The town itself was designed ...
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Virginia Had More Civil War Battles Than Every Other State
The Civil War was the bloodiest ... and its economy was devastated. In 1865, after a long siege, Union troops finally succeeded in capturing the state's capital, Richmond, which also served ...
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Commemorate 1781 British raid on Richmond with four days of historical events
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond National Battlefield Park and its park partners will host four days of events in Jan. 2025 to commemorate the British raid on Richmond during the Revolutionary War.
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Virginia Tech students uncover lost history of Black Civil War soldiers
BLACKSBURG — Students at Virginia Tech are working to shed ... soldiers to learn more about their life before and after the Civil War. Plummer said 70 men enlisting in the USCT originating ...
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
The drive to remove Confederate monuments links those monuments to modern racism. An economic historian shows that the intent ...
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Lee statue is removed in Richmond The statue's removal ... hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war. A Principal Struggles to Fix a Richmond Middle ...