Buck, Carrie (1906–1983)
Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In 1920 her mother was diagnosed as feebleminded—a diagnosis based less on a medical finding than... Find Out More
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- Babcock, Lemuel E. (1809–1897)
- Backcountry Frontier of Colonial Virginia
- Bacon, Nathaniel (1647–1676)
- Bacon, Nathaniel (bap. 1620–1692)
- Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677)
- Bacon’s Death and “Bacons Epitaph”; an excerpt from “The...
- Bagby, George William (1828–1883)
- Bailey, Odessa Pittard (1906–1994)
- Baker, Russell (1925–2019)
- George Balcombe (1836)
- Baldwin, John Brown (1820–1873)
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during the Civil War
- “The Banditti,” Richmond Enquirer (September 20, 1831)
- Banister, John (1649 or 1650–1692)
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816–1894)
- Banks, W. Lester (1911–1986)
- Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson (August 19,...
- Baptists in Colonial Virginia
- Barbour, B. Johnson (1821–1894)
- Barbour, James (1775–1842)
- Barbour, John S. (1820–1892)
- Barbour, Lucy Johnson (1775–1860)
- Barbour, Philip Pendleton (1783–1841)
- Barlowe, Arthur (ca. 1550–ca. 1620)
- Barnes, Thomas H. (1831–1913)
- Barnum, Frances Courtenay Baylor (1848–1920)
- Barr, Stringfellow (1897–1982)
- Barret, William (1786–1871)
- Barrett, James D. (1833–1903)
- Barrett, Kate Waller (1857–1925)
- Barron, Samuel (1809–1888)
- Barter Theatre
- Baskervill, Britton (1863–1892)
- Basse, Nathaniel (bap. 1589–1654)
- Bassett, Burwell (1764–1841)
- Bassette, Andrew W. E. (1857–1942)
- Batte, Thomas (fl. 1630s–1690s)
- Batte, Archibald (d. by April 12, 1830)
- “Battle of Antietam” by Alexander Hunter (1903)
- Battle, John Stewart (1890–1972)
- Bausch, Robert (1945–2018)
- Bayley Wyat’s Speech (December 1866)
- Baylor, John, III (1705–1772)
- Bayly, Thomas Monteagle (1775–1834)
- Bayne, Thomas (ca. 1824–1888)
- Bazile, Leon M. (1890–1967)
- Bazile’s Pre-Nuptial Conditions, Leon M.
- Beach, S. Ferguson (1828–1893)
- Beale, R. L. T. (1819–1893)
- Beall, John Y. (1835–1865)
- Beauregard, G. T. (1818–1893)
- Beazley, Roy C. (1902–1985)
- Belitt, Ben (1911–2003)
- Bell, John H. (1883–1934)
- Belle Isle Prison
- Benga, Ota (ca. 1883–1916)
- Letter from Judah P. Benjamin to Robert E. Lee...
- Bennett, Richard (bap. 1609–ca. 1675)
- Berkeley, Frances Culpeper Stephens (1634–ca. 1695)
- Berkeley, John (ca. 1560–1622)
- Berkeley, Norborne, baron de Botetourt (1717–1770)
- Berkeley, Sir William (1605–1677)
- Bermuda Hundred during the Colonial Period
- Berry, Sir John (baptized 1636–1690)
- “Bettie Thomas-Lewis” from the Richmond Times (June 19, 1892)
- Beverley, Robert (bap. 1635–1687)
- Beverley, Robert (ca. 1740–1800)
- Beverley, Robert (d. 1722)
- Beverley, William (ca. 1696–1756)
- Letter from Clement Biddle to George Washington (April 27,...
- Bigelow v. Forrest (December 1869)
- Biggs, Walter J. (1886–1968)
- A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779)
- Billy (fl. 1770s–1780s)
- Billy or Blind Billy (ca. 1805–1855)
- Binga, Anthony, Jr. (1843–1919)
- Letter from Florence A. Bishop to Jonathan A. Bishop...
- Black Baptists in Virginia (1865–1902)
- Black Confederates
- A Black Indentured Servant Sues for His Freedom (1675)
- Black, Aline E. (1906–1974)
- Black, Leonard A. (1820–1883)
- Blackbird
- Blackburn, Samuel (1761–1835)
- Blackford, Mary Berkeley Minor (1802–1896)
- Blackford, Staige Davis (1931–2003)
- Blackford, W. W. (1831–1905)
- Blackford, William (1801–1864)
- Blackwell, James H. (ca. 1864–1931)
- Blaettermann, George (1782–1850)
- Blaikley, Catherine Kaidyee (ca. 1695–1771)
- Blair, Francis S. (1839–1899)
- Blair, James (ca. 1655–1743)
- Blair, John (ca. 1687–1771)
- Blair, John D. (1759–1823)
- Blair, Lewis H. (1834–1916)
- Blair, Robert W. (1873–1924)
- Sarah Harrison Blair (1670–1713)
- Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861)
- “Blake; or, The Huts of America” (1859)
- Bland, Anna Bennett (d. 1687)
- Bland, Edward (bap. 1614–1652)
- Bland, Edward D. (1848–1927)
- Bland, Giles (bap. 1647–1677)
- Bland, J. W. D. (1844–1870)
- Bland, Richard (1710–1776)
- Bland, Theodorick (bap. 1630–1672)
- Blind Billy Death Notice, Richmond Daily Dispatch (April 23,...
- “Bloodthirsty Vest.” from the Roanoke Times (March 10, 1891)
- Bluett, Benjamin (1580–1621)
- Board of Trade
- Bodeker, Anna Whitehead (1826–1904)
- Bohun, Lawrence (d. 1621)
- Boland, Robert J. (1850–1918)
- Bolling, Phillip S. (ca. 1849–1892)
- Bolling, Robert (1738–1775)
- Bolling, Samuel P. (1819–1900)
- Bolling, Stith (1835–1916)
- Bond, Nelson Slade (1908–2006)
- Bonnycastle, Charles (1796–1840)
- “A Book Very Like ‘To Have and to Hold'”...
- Booker, George William (1821–1884)
- Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)
- Boothe, Armistead L. (1907–1990)
- Boothe, Gardner L. (1872–1964)
- Borden, Benjamin (1675–1743)
- Botetourt Artillery
- Letter from Rev. Jonathan Boucher to Rev. John Waring...
- Bouldin, James Wood (ca. 1792–1854)
- Bouldin, Powhatan (1830–1907)
- Bouldin, Thomas Tyler (d. 1834)
- Bouldin, Wood (1838–1911)
- Bowden, Henry M. (1819–1871)
- Bowden, Thomas R. (1841–1893)
- Bowers, Fredson (1905–1991)
- Bowler, J. Andrew (1862–1935)
- Bowser, James (b. ca. 1730)
- Bowser, Mary Richards (fl. 1846–1867)
- Bowser, Rosa L. Dixon (1855–1931)
- Boxley, George (ca. 1780–1865)
- Boyd, Belle (1844–1900)
- Boyle, Sarah-Patton (1906–1994)
- Bracken, John (bap. 1747–1818)
- Bragg, George F. (1863–1940)
- Branch, James Read (1828–1869)
- Branch, Tazewell (1828–1925)
- Letter from Jonathan S. Braxton to T. O. Chestney...
- Braxton, A. Caperton (1862–1914)
- Braxton, Carter (1736–1797)
- Braxton, Carter M. (1836–1898)
- Bread Riot, Richmond
- Breckinridge, Cary (1839–1918)
- Breckinridge, James (1763–1833)
- Breedlove, William (ca. 1820–1871)
- Brent, George (ca. 1640–by 1700)
- Brent, Giles (ca. 1652–1679)
- Brent, Margaret (ca. 1601–1671)
- Bridges by Early Virginia Indians, Uses of
- Bridges, Charles (bap. 1672–1747)
- A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and...
- A briefe and true report of the new found...
- Brisby, William H. (1836–1916)
- Bristol Sessions (1927), The
- Bristow, Joseph A. (1838–1903)
- Broaddus, William F. (1801–1876)
- Brock, Sarah Ann (1831–1911)
- Brockenbrough, William (1778–1838)
- Brodnax, William H. (ca. 1786–1834)
- Brooke, George (d. 1782)
- Brooks, Albert R. (c. 1817–1881)
- Brooks, Lucy Goode (1818–1900)
- Brooks, Robert Peel (1853–1882)
- Brown, Abram (d. 1840)
- Brown, Edward W. (d. 1929)
- Brown, Goodman (1840–1929)
- Brown, Thomas H. (1864–1952)
- Brown, Henry Box (1815 or 1816–1897)
- Brown, John (1800–1859)
- Brown, John (ca. 1830–after 1900)
- Brown, George O. (1852–1910)
- Browne, William Washington (1849–1897)
- Bruce, James Coles (1806–1865)
- Bruce, Philip Alexander (1856–1933)
- "Brutal Attempt of a Negro," Roanoke Times ...
- Bryan, Albert V. (1899–1984)
- Bryan, C. Braxton (1852–1922)
- Bryan, Daniel (ca. 1789–1866)
- Bryan, John Stewart (1871–1944)
- Bryan, Joseph III (1904–1993)
- Buchanan, Archibald C. (1890–1979)
- Buchanan, John (1748–1822)
- Buck v. Bell (1927)
- Buck v. Bell (May 2, 1927)
- Buck, Carrie (1906–1983)
- Bucke, Richard (1581 or 1582–ca. 1624)
- Buckland, William (1734–by December 15, 1774)
- Burch, T. G. (1869–1951)
- Burgesses for the Assembly of 1619
- Burial of Latané, The
- Burnham, Horace B. (1824–1894)
- Burns, Anthony (1834–1862)
- Burns, Anthony, The Trial of (1854)
- Burnside, Ambrose E. (1824–1881)
- Burwell, Carter (1716–1756)
- Burwell, Lewis (1651 or 1652–1710)
- Burwell, Lewis (1711 or 1712–1756)
- Burwell, Lewis (bap. 1622–ca. 1652)
- Burwell, Lewis (d. 1743)
- Burwell, Lewis (d. by 1779)
- Burwell, Lucy (1683–1716)
- Burwell, Nathaniel (1750–1814)
- Burwell, Robert (1720–1777)
- Letter from Nathaniel Butler to Nathaniel Rich, January 12,...
- Butler, Benjamin F. (1818–1893)
- Butt, Israel L. (1848–1916)
- Butt, Martha Haines (1833–1871)
- Button, Robert Y. (1899–1977)
- Butts, Evelyn Thomas (1924–1993)
- “By the King, A Proclamation, For Suppressing Rebellion and...
- Byrd Organization
- Byrd, Harry F. (1887–1966)
- Byrd, Harry Flood Jr. (1914–2013)
- Byrd, Mary Willing (1740–1814)
- Byrd, Richard E. (1888–1957)
- Byrd, William (1674–1744)
- Byrd, William (1728–1777)
- Byrd, William (ca. 1652–1704)
- Byrne, Leslie (1946– )
