The big picture: As the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond was the nation's poster child for Confederate monument removal. Virginia once boasted more "Lost Cause" iconography — falsely ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

Ralph Northam has also announced that a controversial monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond would be ... divisive symbol from Virginia's capital city, and we're confident in ...

“Richmond Could Be Next Monument Battleground,” an NBC News report asserted on Sunday. The capital of Virginia, and the former capital of the Confederacy, is a target-rich environment when it ...

Several times he has been threatened with hanging; on one occasion the rope had been prepared, and on the day he left the former capital of ... towns are flooded with "Confederate bonds." ...

In 1861, following Virginia's secession from the Union, Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy. The city's capitol building subsequently became the home of both the state's General ...

Del. Alex Askew’s effort passed the 2025 session along party lines, but Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed it over the weekend ...

Governor Glenn Youngkin has taken action on several controversial bills passed by the General Assembly earlier this year.

In Virginia’s capital, a renewed effort to ... Virginia Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday ...