Step back to the summer of 1950, when fear silenced the streets of Wytheville, Virginia.  Told through powerful firsthand ...

Everyone needs to watch Ken Burns’ documentary on the American Revolution because it teaches history exactly as it should be ...

Complete documentary on Virginia McCullough, who murdered her parents and lived with their corpses for years. A forensic ...

Burns requested photographs of a handful of the AAS' collection items to use in the documentary, including newspapers and a ...

A Virginia man on Friday made his first court appearance on charges that he planted a pair of pipe bombs outside the ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's ...

ShellBound’ explores the oyster industry in the South, from farming to restuarants. Grand Isle, Louisiana, is the focus of the second episode.

Television correspondent and West Virginia native Ed Rabel has died at the age of 86. According to his obituary, Edward ...

Charles Wright Sydnor, Jr., a historian and Holocaust scholar who led the VPM network of public stations in central Virginia as president and CEO, died Nov. 28 in Abingdon, Va. He was 82.

In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the ...

An effort is made to bring the best available science on a question from early American history.