February is Black History Month — but where did the concept come from? The answer is right here in Central Virginia.

These skills are often sought-after for their universal appeal, but they might be more important now than ever before ... "When we think about the impact soft skills, also known as people skills, has ...

Chandra Manning took to the podium for her lecture “A Dangerous Time in a Perilous Place — Uneasy Alliances in Civil War Era ...

Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

BALTIMORE -- Vince Leggett dedicated his life to telling the full story of the Chesapeake Bay and the Black watermen. He was an educator, orator, author, cultural historian and conservationist. He was ...

Forensic experts have revealed how they identified the body of a missing teenager using insect colonies ... usually the blow flies that are the most important insects because they're the first ...

PBS "Your 38th great-grandfather," Gates confirms. "He's one of the most important people in history, of course, and he basically created modern Europe, with an iron will." "Well if you wanna see ...

It was "really important" people could go to their local museum and see themselves and learn about how they got to where they are, he said. "Most New Zealanders know very little about what happened in ...

In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress' appearance on the Jan. 28 episode of Finding Your Roots, Stone, 66, is at a loss for words when host Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals that, on her paternal side ...

One of our daughters, who has four little kids, came up with a creative solution called “toy jail” to show how siblings are more important than things. In this case, toys.

It was “really important” people could go to their local museum and see themselves and learn about how they got to where they are, he said. “Most New Zealanders know very little about what ...

CHESAPEAKE — A driver who failed to stop after striking and killing an 8-year-old boy on a Chesapeake roadway was sentenced Friday to five years in prison. The term issued to Richard Humbert by ...