Historians note that in 1755, George Washington suffered his only electoral defeat, losing for a Frederick County seat in the colonial House of Burgesses because, unlike the victor, Washington ...

Burgess Hill Town Football Club had some special visitors from across the Atlantic as three football fans with a familiar ...

Naugatuck's facade improvement subcommittee is accepting applications from business owners and landlords to provide funds to ...

Naugatuck works to abandon part of Water Street for new train station as part of the downtown renovation project at Parcel B ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans ...

He stated that the House of Burgesses killed the bill immediately, but there is no proof of this event ever happening aside from Jefferson’s claims. Seeing as he owned hundreds of slaves that he ...

With approximately 300 bills outstanding for the House to consider, Del. Eric Phillips, R-Henry, says he is hopeful this year ...

The Borough Board of Burgesses held a regular meeting and a meeting of electors on Tuesday, February 11. The elections will be held Monday, May 5, and will seek to fill several positions, including ...

An unlikely collaboration in the U.S. Senate speaks to the enduring intersection in Virginia of whiskey and politics.