VA Historical Society's slave name database
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — The Virginia Historical Society is going on the road to spread the word about its database of slave names.Historical society staff will hold the first of five presentations Monday...
View ArticleKenneth W. Thompson, director of University of Virginia’s Miller Center, dies
Kenneth W. Thompson, 91, a scholar of foreign relations and U.S. government who directed the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for two decades, died Feb. 2 at an assisted living facility in...
View ArticleJim Cullen: How Six Oscar Winners Tell the Story of America
Jim Cullen is chairman of the history department at the Fieldston School in New York and author of "Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions" (Oxford University Press). A box office is...
View ArticleIranians: 'Argo'"anti-Iran"
...That perception was re-enforced by the surprise presenter of the award, Michelle Obama. Fars News, Iran’s main hardline outlet, wasted no time in questioning her role, writing, “In a rare occasion...
View ArticleDiane Ravitch comes out against Common Core
Education historian Diane Ravitch, the leading voice in the movement opposing corporate-based school reform, has for several years said she has no definitive opinion on the Common Core State Standards....
View ArticleHow Harriet Tubman’s story was saved
March 10, 2013, will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman, a fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad. She is greatly admired for her bravery in guiding slaves to freedom and...
View ArticleJoseph Frank, Dostoevsky scholar, dies
Joseph Frank, a longtime professor of literature whose five-volume biography of the 19th-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered a landmark of historical and literary scholarship, died...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: Watergate Reminds Us that D.C. Has Been Worse
George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post.“When I first met Richard Nixon,” Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, “I could see in his...
View ArticleDeal is near to shift traffic out of Manassas battlefield park
The National Park Service and Virginia authorities are close to signing a major Civil War battlefield preservation deal that eventually would close two congested roads that slice through the...
View ArticleLenard R. Berlanstein, U-Va. history professor, dies at 65
Lenard R. Berlanstein, 65, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, died Feb. 24 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.He had lung cancer, said a brother, Bruce Berlanstein.Dr. Berlanstein...
View ArticleFrank Bures: A Travelogue through Cold War Nuclear Installations
Frank Bures is a writer based in Minneapolis. In the early 1980s, when I was a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, in a small town in Minnesota, our teacher, Mr. Odegaard, asked us if we...
View ArticleGregory B. Craig: The Voting Rights Act Should Be Left Alone
Gregory B. Craig, a Washington lawyer, was White House counsel from January 2009 to January 2010.On Aug. 6, 1965, I was working in Coahoma County, Miss., trying to register new voters at the courthouse...
View ArticleSlavery, Holocaust never OK as political fodder, but Cuccinelli’s history on...
RICHMOND, Va. — Ken Cuccinelli learned last week that it’s foolhardy to invoke slavery to make a political point.The presumptive Republican gubernatorial nominee set off a furor when Democratic Party...
View ArticleGulf War veterans show abnormalities in scans of their brains
When she returned from the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Air Force nurse Denise Nichols experienced sudden aches, fatigue and cognitive problems, but she had no idea what was causing them. They grew worse:...
View ArticleRoger Ebert, legendary film critic, dies at 70
Roger Ebert, the Chicago movie critic whose weekly TV show with crosstown rival Gene Siskel made him one of the most widely recognized and influential voices on film, died April 4 of cancer at a...
View ArticleWalter Pincus: Kim Jong-un -- A Son Trying to Find his Way
Walter Pincus is a national security journalist for The Washington Post.How provocative has the United States been to North Korea?For almost two months, the United States and South Korea have had more...
View ArticleBush library dedication
DALLAS — All the living American presidents past and present are gathering in Dallas, a rare reunion to salute one of their own at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.Profound...
View ArticleMichael Beschloss's picks for 7 striking images of ex-presidents
With the five living presidents meeting Thursday in Texas, we asked presidential historian Michael Beschloss to give us a sense of these presidential gatherings. Beschloss, author of nine books and...
View ArticleUnclaimed Civil War vets interred with 4 others as Arlington Cemetery...
ARLINGTON, Va. — For more than 100 years, the cremated remains of two brothers — Civil War soldiers from Indiana — sat on a funeral home shelf, unclaimed and largely forgotten.On Thursday, their...
View ArticlePreservation Virginia releases its annual list of ‘most endangered’ places,...
RICHMOND, Va. — Preservation Virginia’s annual most endangered list includes Arlington National Cemetery, a network of rural schools that aimed to improve educational opportunities for young black...
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