Barton Myers, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University, will give the keynote lecture for the 154th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg at the Fredericksburg and ...

CIVILWAR DIG: This print of "Our Soldiers in the Streets of Fredericksburg," by A.R. Waud, shows Union troops under Confederate fire advancing with caution through the streets of Fredericksburg, ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. If you look back at letters ...

The battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862 was not one of the proclaimed “big battles” of the American Civil War, yet its significance in various ways marked the crossroads for many people.

Archaeologists have discovered a 19th century road while looking for unmarked graves from the Fredericksburg National Cemetery near the Battle of Fredericksburg, one of the bloodiest during the Civil ...

FREDERICKSBURG — Perhaps the Yankee boys from Company C had tumbled into the basement on Princess Anne Street to escape the rebel snipers hidden in the ruined buildings outside. Maybe they had sought ...