Old Dominion University is celebrating September as African Diaspora Heritage Month with a free event on Saturday. It will include cultural performances, a keynote address, free glaucoma testing and voter registration.
After their farms were raided by Fenian invaders in 1866, Canadian residents of Quebec’s Missisquoi region formed their own militia called the "Red Sashes," which fought against a second Fenian incursion in 1870.
The 1619 Commemoration Ceremony will be held Friday through Sunday at Fort Monroe. There will be several events each day with keynote speakers, musicians and activities.
The modern American conservative movement, which began taking on a distinct form in the 1950s, was always a pluralist grouping. Under its banner were marshalled, among others, traditionalists, classical liberals, social and religious conservatives, libertarians, national security hawks, and Southern agrarians. These groups disagreed about many things; nonetheless, they were bound together for decades by hostility to progressivism, the New Deal, and socialism; and by deep opposition to Communism and the Soviet Union.