Virginia

12 Reasons Why People in Virginia Are Built Different Than the Rest of the Country

Virginia isn’t just for lovers—it’s for people who can recite Civil War history, eat peanuts by the fistful, and survive four seasons in a single week...

How the US Marine Corps was born over pints of beer in this Philly tavern, 1775

America’s largest slave trafficking operation ran from this pen in 1828 Virginia until Union troops shut it down

How one Black nurse in 1945 forced the Army to integrate its medical corps during World War II

This enslaved preacher’s 1831 revolt terrified the South into passing America’s harshest slave laws

Arlington Cemetery’s forgotten village built by freed slaves on Confederate land in 1863

In 1898, this battleship mysteriously exploded in Cuba and triggered the Spanish-American War

The day North Korean artillery poked the wrong battleship and got erased by 16-inch naval guns

Before integration, Black families could only camp at the “Negro area” in this Virginia national park

This Virginia fort witnessed the first airplane fatality that almost ended the Wright Brothers’ career

10 facts about the courthouse where 28,000 Confederate soldiers laid down their arms forever