This is a tale of two Virginias. The first was a state built on the backs of slaves and controlled by the wealthy. The second: a territory inhabited by frontiersmen and former indentured servants.

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

At its roots, The American Southwest, from Fin and Fur Films, is a natural history documentary. “I’m a wildlife guy,” says ...