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    Ex Parte Virginia (1880)

    In Ex Parte Virginia, decided on March 1, 1880, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed congressional authority to enforce African Americans’ rights to serve on juries in... Find Out More

  • Early Archaic Period
  • Jubal A. Early (1816–1894)
  • Eastern Chickahominy Tribe
  • John B. Eastham (ca. 1828–1869)
  • Letter from Thomas H. Eastman to Edward Hooker (August...
  • Edward Echols (1849–1914)
  • The Economy of the Enslaved in Virginia
  • C. Vernon Eddy (1877–1963)
  • Letter from Editor, Richmond Whig and Commercial Journal (August...
  • Editor’s Note, Virginia Argus (March 14, 1811)
  • Editorial Comments from the Staunton Spectator and Vindicator (July...
  • Editorial in the Waverly Watchman (March 18, 1873)
  • Edmund Jenings Removed from Governor’s Council (1726)
  • Abe Craddock Edmunds (1899–1959)
  • Murrell Edmunds (1898–1981)
  • Isaac Edmundson (ca. 1840–1927)
  • Ballard T. Edwards (ca. 1828–1881)
  • Tommy Edwards (1922–1969)
  • Joseph Dupuy Eggleston Jr. (1867–1953)
  • “Eight hundred choise persons”; an excerpt from A Declaration...
  • El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513)
  • “Election of burgesses by whome” (1670)
  • The Election of Governor Thomas Nelson; an excerpt from...
  • Elections in Colonial Virginia
  • “Elegy” by Robert Bolling (1775)
  • Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
  • Ely Mound Archaeological Site
  • John Patten Emmet (1796–1842)
  • Emory and Henry College during the Civil War
  • Enclosure: Poem by Phillis Wheatley (October 26, 1775)
  • Enclosure: Washington’s Plans for His River, Union, and Muddy...
  • English Civil Wars and Virginia, The
  • “English running away with negroes” (1661)
  • “An Englishman’s Visit to Capt. R. E. Lee,” Confederate...
  • The Enslaved Community at Montpelier
  • Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
  • Enslaved Fishermen and Mariners in Virginia
  • Enslaved House Servants
  • Epidemic, The Norfolk and Portsmouth Yellow Fever (1855)
  • Letter from Elizabeth Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson (October...
  • John Wayles Eppes (1772–1823)
  • Richard Eppes (1824–1896)
  • Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (1909–1920)
  • Excerpts from Equal Suffrage: Address from the Colored Citizens...
  • The Ethics of Eugenics; an excerpt from Eugenical Sterilization...
  • Joseph P. Evans (1835–1889)
  • William D. Evans (ca. 1831–1900)
  • William W. Evans (d. 1892)
  • John R. Everett (1918–1992)
  • Richard S. Ewell (1817–1872)
  • Ex Parte State of Virginia (March 1, 1880)
  • Ex Parte Virginia (1880)
  • An excerpt from A Declaration of the state of...
  • An excerpt from the diary of George Washington (January...
  • "The Execution Yesterday," Richmond Daily Dispatch (October 22, 1864)
  • Exploration, The Age of
  • Extract from Readjuster Governor William Evelyn Cameron’s annual message...
  • Moses Jacob Ezekiel (1844–1917)

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