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  • Fort Monroe
    Fort Monroe

    Fort Monroe during the Civil War

    Fort Monroe is a military installation located in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on the Peninsula overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. It was the only federal military installation in the Upper... Find Out More

  • Sarah Lee Fain (1888–1962)
  • Fairfax County Resolves (July 18, 1774)
  • The Fairfax Resolves
  • Ferdinando Fairfax (1769–1820)
  • “Faithful Janitor Dead at 89,” Charlottesville Daily Progress (October...
  • Jerry Falwell (1933–2007)
  • Family Life during the Civil War
  • Frances Farmer (1909–1993)
  • James Farmer (1920–1999)
  • Farmville Protests of 1963
  • R. R. Farr (1845–1892)
  • Joseph E. Farrar (1830–1892)
  • Fathers, The (1938)
  • William Faulcon (1841–by 1904)
  • Charles J. Faulkner (1806–1884)
  • William Faulkner (1897–1962)
  • Francis Fauquier (bap. 1703–1768)
  • Lydia Mary Fay (ca. 1804–1878)
  • George Fayerman (d. 1890)
  • “A Feminist Novel: Miss Johnston’s ‘Hagar’ a Tale and...
  • Charles R. Fenwick (1900–1969)
  • Ferdinando Fairfax, “Plan for liberating the negroes within the...
  • John E. Ferguson (1810–1859)
  • James Gaven Field (1826–1902)
  • James A. Fields (1844–1903)
  • Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Virginia’s Fifth Revolutionary Convention’s Resolutions for Independence (May 15,...
  • The Fincastle Resolutions
  • Fincastle Resolutions (Virginia Gazette, February 10, 1775
  • First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614)
  • The First Anglo-Powhatan War Begins; an excerpt from “A...
  • First Charter of Virginia (1606)
  • First Military District
  • Excerpt from The First New York (Lincoln Cavalry) by...
  • First Rockbridge Artillery
  • Fishing and Shellfishing by Early Virginia Indians
  • Marshall W. Fishwick (1923–2006)
  • Philip Vickers Fithian (1747–1776)
  • H. R. Fitzgerald (1873–1931)
  • T. B. Fitzgerald (1840–1929)
  • George Fitzhugh (1806–1881)
  • William Henry Fitzhugh (1792–1830)
  • William Fitzhugh of Chatham (1741–1809)
  • Five Forks, Battle of
  • L. R. Flemings (d. 1937)
  • “Flew on the Wings of Death to the Hills,”...
  • William “Billy” Flora (d. ca. 1819)
  • William Flora Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants (1806)
  • John B. Floyd (1806–1863)
  • “Folklore material from Upper Guinea” (1938)
  • Antonia Ford (1838–1871)
  • The Fort Gower Resolves
  • Fort Gower Resolves (December 22, 1774)
  • Fort Lee
  • Fort Monroe during the Civil War
  • Joseph Fossett (1780–1858)
  • Kitty Foster (ca. 1790–1863)
  • The Founding of the Virginia Technical College System
  • Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • John Jr. Fox (1862–1919)
  • Francis Howard to William Blathwayt (1687)
  • Franklin and Armfield
  • A. Q. Franklin (1852–1924)
  • Fredericksburg, Battle of
  • Fredericksburg, Second Battle of
  • Free Blacks during the Civil War
  • Free Black People in Colonial Virginia
  • “Free Settlement on the Coast of Africa” (August 2,...
  • Freedmen’s Education in Virginia, 1861–1870
  • Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953)
  • John Freeman (d. 1876)
  • “Frivolous Reasons,” Richmond Planet (June 11, 1898)
  • “From an Eye Witness” (July 16, 1898)
  • “From Missouri” Richmond Enquirer” (December 11, 1819)
  • “From the South: Horrible Crime of Negro Soldiers,” New...
  • “From the Journal of Commerce.” (February 26, 1841)
  • "From the Vicksburg Register," The Floridian (July 25, 1835)
  • Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia
  • Joshua Fry (ca. 1700–May 31, 1754)
  • Fugitive Slave Clause, The Constitution of the United States...
  • Fugitive Slave Laws
  • “Fugitive Slaves in Ohio,” New York Daily Times (September...
  • Thomas Fuller Obituary, Columbian Centinel (December 29, 1790)
  • Thomas Fuller (ca. 1710–1790)
  • Fulton Oral History Project
  • Funders
  • “Funeral of Henry Martin,” Charlottesville Daily Progress (October 9,...
  • “Funeral Procession,” Richmond Dispatch (June 7, 1854)
  • “Fury Added to Fury”; an excerpt from A true...

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