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 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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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George Pickett
George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest of eight ... Pickett worked as an insurance agent after the war. In the years to come, when asked by reporters why his charge ...