U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. ruled that a felon disenfranchisement provision in the state’s constitution violates the federal Virginia Readmission Act of 1870.

Since starting his second presidential term a year ago, Trump’s policies and actions have drawn ire on multiple fronts, ...

On Monday, Jan. 19, Florida honors two historic figures with very different goals: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and ...

Union Gen. David Hunter led 18,000 troops in the Army of West Virginia up the Shenandoah Valley in June 1864 with orders to destroy Confederate rail transportation hubs at Staunton and Lynchburg.

Two Civil War battles occurred at Lafayette’s Pinhook Bridge in 1863, with Confederate forces burning the bridge twice to slow Union advances The Battle of Vermilion Bayou on April 17, 1863 saw ...

This image shows a cyclorama building from 1894 (though it is not the cyclorama that was in Fort Worth). Courtesy Richard Selcer Cycloramas were a form of three-dimensional art hugely popular in the ...

This weekend’s gathering of young Republicans and conservative influencers in the Arizona desert offered a glimpse into the divisions already fraying President Donald Trump’s coalition even before its ...

The National Bank of Manassas, Virginia, opened in 1896. Photographs are courtesy of the author. I recently asked my oftentimes collaborator, Lee Lofthus, if he had a suitable note for the Reader’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust described the motivations and events that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and the ...

Wilson Beaver is a senior policy advisor in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation. Today, Dec. 9, 2025, marks an important anniversary in the lead-up to our country’s ...

Sudan is facing what the World Food Program has called “the humanitarian crisis of our time,” as tens of millions struggle through sieges, blockades and aid shortages that have pushed entire cities ...

It was a narrow wooden bridge situated over the southern branch of the Elizabeth River in difficult terrain amid bogs and swampland, accessible only by narrow causeways on both the north and south ...