As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

His plan, he claimed, unfolded and ultimately failed when his was serving as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769, when he was just 26 years old, to 1775. J. David Ake/Getty The ...

An original copy of the Augusta Resolves broadside is on display at the Augusta County Circuit Courthouse Record Room to ...

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

General Assembly session adjourned sine die (meaning with no appointed day for resumption) on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. This was ...

At the time, he was in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and he met with various revolutionaries in secret while serving King George III in the colony’s government. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

Jefferson claimed that he had proposed emancipation before the Virginia House of Burgesses, to which he was elected in 1769, though that is unverified by any of the experts interviewed by director ...

He stated that the House of Burgesses killed the bill immediately ... Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds ...