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We are one week closer to that scariest of seasons, Halloween, and that brings us the second in our literary…

As October rolls around once again, we find ourselves in a very different place than even one year ago. We…

September 2 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the greatest global conflict of the modern…

Few residents of Lynchburg know that a member of the famed “Tuskegee Airmen” lived and worked in the Hill City…

In celebrating the monumental—and consequential—American woman’s right to vote, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, we have…

During Reconstruction in 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed granting citizenship rights to anyone born in the United States. Unfortunately,…

The Industrial Revolution turned the world, as people knew it, upside down. Urbanization, mass migrations, cross-continental travel, new technologies, and…

On July 2, 2018, the Lynchburg City Council elected Council Member Treney Tweedy to become Mayor, Lynchburg’s first African American…

The principle of “one person, one vote” is such an axiom in modern American thinking and discourse, it is hard…

Until the 1830s, America was primarily an agrarian society. Cities were becoming hubs of thriving commerce—as the steam engine, spinning…