An early champion. Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,“ which was created in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a noted black historian and educator born in New Canton. He found that most history books ignored the black American experience and set about to draw attention to it. Celebration expands. In 1976, during the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration, Woodson’s week became a monthlong celebration.

Curators at the National Museum of American History have settled a 148-year-old mystery once and for all.

As decades passed, Virginiawarmed to legacy of leaderborn 200 years ago today In his lifetime, Abraham Lincoln was vilified in Virginia as a tyrant, a fool and a madman. The Richmond Enquirer labeled him an “illiterate partizan” and a “fanatic.“

Who was Abraham Lincoln? A group of historians will delve into the life and works of one of America’s most celebrated presidents at a conference next month on Lincoln and the South at the University of Richmond’s Jepson Alumni Center. The March 12-14 conference is presented by the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar.