The National D-Day Memorial is a congressionally approved national war memorial in Bedford, Virginia, honoring the American GIs who participated in the invasion of France at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II (1939–1945). Dedicated on June 6, 2001, by U.S. president George W. Bush and receiving as many as 100,000 visitors per [...]
The Virginia Wolves—sometimes spelled the Virginia Woolfs, and named after the English essayist and novelist—was an all-girl rock band that played in the Roanoke area early in the 1960s. They might have been lost to history were it not for the fact that two young writers attending Hollins College at the time, Annie Doak and [...]
John Dos Passos was. The Lost Generation writer, best known for the left-leaning U.S.A. trilogy of novels, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1896 but raised by a mother from Petersburg, Virginia. In 1949, after a long legal battle, he was able to establish claim to his father’s farm at Spence’s Point in Westmoreland County, [...]
No. Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, but Joseph E. Johnston didn’t surrender his until April 26. More Confederates surrendered on May 4, and the last gave up in Galveston, Texas, on June 2. So why is Appomattox synonymous with the end of [...]
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