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    The Known World
    The Known World

    The Known World (2003)

    The Known World (2003) is a novel by Edward P. Jones that centers on Henry Townsend, a free black slaveholder living in antebellum Virginia. Winner of the National... Find Out More

  • Excerpt from Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a...
  • Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly (1818–1907)
  • “Keep at a Safe Distance” (December 4, 1918)
  • Samuel F. Kelso (ca. 1825–1880)
  • Richard Kemp (ca. 1600–ca. 1650)
  • James Lawson Kemper (1823–1895)
  • Kentuckian in New-York, The (1834)
  • The Kepone Environmental Disaster
  • William Anne Keppel second earl of Albemarle (1702–1754)
  • Kernstown, Battle of
  • Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655–1660)
  • Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970)
  • Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid
  • Kinney v. the Commonwealth (October 3, 1878)
  • Letter from Frederick Kitt to George Washington (January 15,...
  • The Knickerbocker (March 1835)
  • The Knickerbocker 4 (August 1834) 155–156.
  • Knights of the Horse-Shoe, The (1845)
  • The Known World (2003)
  • Ku Klux Klan in Virginia

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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