The Virginia Historical Society has launched a free educational resource. Unknown No Longer is a database with information about the lives of enslaved people in Virginia.
Berliners woke on Sunday morning, August 13, 1961, to find their city and their lives cut in two by a wall of barbed wire and concrete blocks. It was almost impossible to flee the oppressive East German regime.
America’s second -- and arguably more successful English Colony -- elebrates its 400th Anniversary next month on the banks of the James River, just South of Richmond. Charles Fishburne of WCVE News reports.
“RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope” tells the little-known story of Robert Kennedy's 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of apartheid. Featuring never before seen archival footage, and interviews in South Africa and the United States, filmmakers Larry Shore and Tami Gold tell the story of Senator Robert Kennedy’s influential June 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of Apartheid.
Commentator Thea Marshall visited a Northern Neck museum to learn more about a "low land beauty"...
(the woman who may hae been young George Washington's first true love...)
