Randy Walker

When Thomas Jefferson’s term expired without a successor being chosen, this doctor from the Roanoke Valley took charge for eight eventful days.

The doctor who served as acting governor during a crucial period of the Revolution is buried in Roanoke.

This Founding Father preferred simplicity, “not like these other guys.”

Draft resistance in the Northern Neck led to one man being charged with murder, but an uprising blocked his trial.

Jack Jouett is the Paul Revere of Virginia but Revere is not the Jouett of Massachusetts.

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it didn’t fit his vision of an agrarian slaveocracy, that Black slave ownership wasn’t the same as white slave ownership and that Patrick Henry manipulated white farmers into supporting the Patriot cause.

Most of the key participants in the American Revolution were surprisingly young.

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions, in which leaders in the now-defunct Fincastle County crossed a line on the way to independence.

Music was present throughout the American Colonies, but the artistry involved was deemed highest in the South.

Music was a military necessity in the 1700s. That’s how commanders relayed orders over the din of battle.