As recently as a couple of years ago, most people in Brownsburg, Virginia — population 33 within the village and a few thousand around it — would proudly tell you that they didn't have slavery in ...

Whitney Nell Stewart - Author, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations To mark her graduation from dental school in 2021, Breanna Henley took photographs in front of a slave ...

A white couple in Sissonville, West Virginia, faced additional charges of human sex trafficking and neglect after reportedly confining their five adoptive Black children in a barn for forced labor.

HUNTINGTON — Milton Middle School teacher Brian Casto has been named the 2024 West Virginia History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, according to a news release ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) is unveiling a new exhibit called “Un/Bound: Free Virginians, 1619-1865,” which tells the stories of free Black Virginians from ...

The project included descendants, University of Virginia graduate students, historians, Rockbridge County high schoolers and a 5-year-old who dug... Virginia museum works to uncover town's history of ...