DANVILLE, Va. – Patchwork 250 is a new initiative from WSLS 10 that tells Virginia’s story, one piece at a time. Like a quilt made of many patches, every person, story, and tradition adds something special to our history. Join us as we…
The Freedom House Museum at 1315 Duke St. invites you to view a new traveling exhibition, “Monday Robinson: A Life of Thorns and Roses.” The exhibition opened at Freedom House on Oct. 22 and will run through Dec. 31. Belle Grove Plantation, located…
These misty-eyed monuments often paper over atrocities against Indigenous peoples – something that is finally being officially recognised This is the tale of three cities and the same number of statues, two of them colonial era and one from early this…
Anthony Cohen, left, a descendent of freedom seeker Patrick Sneed, recounts a family history to Paul Ortiz. The Underground Railroad, which helped people escape slavery to freedom, necessarily operated in secrecy until the end of the Civil War. Now a…
By ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press The original, hand-drawn survey of the Mason-Dixon Line at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, N.C., on Monday. Monica Scott | Brunk Auctions via AP It’s perhaps the most consequential map in American history. And it could be yours.
The controversy of Stone Mountain’s confederate carving, in the city of the same name, is explored in a new documentary produced by the Atlanta History Center. More Black people live in the South than any other region, yet the reign…
As King Charles III tours the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda over the next nine days, he will be repeatedly reminded that he is the inheritor of a throne that presided over the enslavement of millions of Africans who…
In his book, The Confederate Negro: Virginia’s Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861-1865, the historian James H. Brewer describes the black Confederate as “a historical enigma,” ignored by historians who are uncertain what to make of him. Black Southerners did not fare…
The next event in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, now in its 38th season, is “A Lecture by Darius Wallace: Frederick Douglass’ Expanding Notions of Freedom,” 7 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts’ Johnny Carson Theater, 11th and…
The new book "A Nation Born in A Day" with editor Michael Poliakoff; Stone Tower Press, ACTA Historians and professors refute arguments from popular ‘1619 Project’ In keeping with the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new book “A Nation Born in a Day:…
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