His name was incomplete in an earlier version of this story. Confederate icon Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was labeled a scapegoat by one speaker and a traitor by another, as Roanoke City School ...

Charlottesville’s statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, as well as a one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacagawea ...

A Jackson police official confirmed to the Clarion Ledger that a 15-year-old male was shot and killed Friday, May 23, in the Presidential Hills neighborhood in Northwest Jackson. JPD Public ...

Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to ...

Since the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide racial reckoning that blanketed the U.S. after May 25, Virginia has removed the most Confederate symbols — 26 total — in the country ...

Seventy-seven thousand years ago on a cold, wet Western Cape winter’s day, a local potter was sheltering in her cave at Blombos on the south coast ...

1835: Attempt to assassinate President Andrew Jackson On January 30, 1835, a thirtysomething British immigrant named Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson while he was ...