As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

A+E Networks "In a part of Jefferson’s biography, he even mentions that when he was in the House of Burgesses he and another member wanted to have a plan of emancipation," historian Annette ...

General Assembly session adjourned sine die (meaning with no appointed day for resumption) on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. This was ...

An original copy of the Augusta Resolves broadside is on display at the Augusta County Circuit Courthouse Record Room to ...

Historians note that in 1755, George Washington suffered his only electoral defeat, losing for a Frederick County seat in the colonial House of Burgesses because, unlike the victor, Washington ...

At the time, he was in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and he met with various revolutionaries in secret while serving King George III in the colony’s government. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

He stated that the House of Burgesses killed the bill immediately, but there is no proof of this event ever happening aside from Jefferson’s claims. Seeing as he owned hundreds of slaves that he ...

Jefferson claimed that he had proposed emancipation before the Virginia House of Burgesses, to which he was elected in 1769, though that is unverified by any of the experts interviewed by director ...

Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first internal tax on the American colonies, and thus began a decade of missteps by the British. Their miscalculations would take their country and their colonists ...