On March 25, 1965, a column of civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. completed a 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, bringing to a dramatic close one of the most consequential demonstrations of the civil rights era. The four-day journey,…
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In the summer of 1676, Virginia’s tidewater region simmered with discontent. Economic hardship, political grievances, and ongoing frontier conflicts converged to ignite one of the most significant uprisings in colonial American history: Bacon’s Rebellion. The colony of Virginia in the 17th century was a…
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