Drive just about an hour southwest of Richmond, and you’ll stumble upon Farmville—a Virginia gem where brick-lined streets tell stories two centuries old while somehow feeling fresher than tomorrow’s ...

Longwood University, founded in 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary, brings youthful vitality to the downtown area. The ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Originally created as one of the city’s numbered political subdivisions shortly after Houston’s founding in 1836, Third Ward has undergone significant boundary changes and population transformations ...

Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor in the Jandoli School, spoke in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month for the American Battlefield Trust, where he discussed the surrenders of the Confederacy in a program ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy ...

US and Ukrainian delegations held high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that Kyiv hopes can repair its fraught relationship with Washington and restart American weapons delivery and ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir, left, and vice-president Riek Machar, right, shake hands after ...

Russia said it downed 343 Ukrainian drones overnight. LONDON -- Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 343 Ukrainian drones overnight, in what appeared to be Kyiv's largest cross ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.