Lawler calls this “the greatest single war crime of the conflict,” a dubious honor long pinned on Dunmore, though it needn’t be. A 1777 patriot investigation revealed the stark truth ...

As a boy, Lawler had been taught that Dunmore, the last royal governor of ... of Virginia and Tidewater during the Revolutionary War. The nonfiction work, published Tuesday by Atlantic Monthly ...

created a regiment of formerly enslaved Black soldiers to help fight the war. The author — a journalist who proves himself at home in historical archives — deftly dissects Dunmore’s choices ...

A teenage boy has been arrested as part of an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a man at Shellharbour on Tuesday afternoon. I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury ...

Can other Colonies avoid the conflict that's coming? Our relations with Britain may be spiraling out of control.

A teenage boy has been charged with murder following the alleged stabbing death of a man near a Shellharbour train station. Nadine Morton covers emergency services and breaking news for the ...

For humble families of miners, weavers and flower growers, life in their simple cottages in the rural village of Strathbungo was shaped by ...

Imagine you’re from one of the great West African empires: the Yoruba, whose intricate political systems rivaled those of ...

Two centuries ago on January 20, 15 men gathered in a Wythe County tavern to send a message to leaders of the American ...

History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...