The Lost Cause
The Lost Cause is an interpretation of the American Civil War (1861–1865) that seeks to present the war from the perspective of Confederates and in the... Find Out More
- Labor in Virginia during the Twentieth Century
- Ladies’ Memorial Associations
- Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson...
- James Lafayette (ca. 1748–1830)
- Lafayette’s Draft of the Declaration of the Rights of...
- Land Grant to Peter Hollow (October 8, 1766)
- Land Ordinance of 1785 (May 20, 1785)
- Letter from John Langhorne (Peter Carr) to George Washington...
- Excerpt from Holt Langston Claim (December 4, 1876)
- John Mercer Langston (1829–1897)
- Languages and Interpreters in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Last of the Pioneers or Old Times in East...
- Late Woodland Period (AD 900–1650)
- Law and Justice in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Law Prohibiting Indentured Servants from Hiring Themselves Out (1643)
- Law Regulating Indentured Servants (1643)
- Law Regulating Marriage of Indentured Servants (1643)
- Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall
- Laws Concerning Indentured Servants (1619)
- Testimony of Hense Lawson (February 18, 1884)
- Testimony of George A. Lea (February 15, 1884)
- University Chapel & Chapel Galleries
- Letter from Henry Lee IV to William Berkeley Lewis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Eleanor Agnes...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mary Randolph...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mary Randolph...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mary Randolph...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mildred Childe...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mildred Childe...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Robert E....
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Robert E....
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Captain Wagner (May...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Edward Lee Childe...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Ethelbert Barksdale (February...
- Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Hannah Lee Corbin...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Henry Lee (December...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Hill Carter (January...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis (September...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Anna Randolph...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Robert E. Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant...
- Letter from Thomas Lee to George Washington (June 28,...
- Letter from Anne McCarty Lee to William B. Lewis...
- Alexander G. Lee (d. by October 10, 1901)
- Arthur Lee (1740–1792)
- Letter from Arthur Lee to Samuel Adams (December 31,...
- Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905)
- Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797)
- Henry Lee (1756–1818)
- Henry Lee (1787–1837)
- Mary Randolph Custis Lee (1807–1873)
- Norvel LaFallette Ray Lee (1924–1992)
- “Norvel Lee, Back From Helsinki, Surprised to Find He’s...
- Norvell Lee v. Commonwealth of Virginia (September 7, 1949)
- Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794)
- Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Charles Lee (June...
- Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Patrick Henry (April...
- Lee’s Resolution (1776)
- Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)
- Robert E. Lee and Slavery
- Lee, Robert E. in Memory
- Robert E. Jr. Lee (1843–1914)
- Robert E. Lee Sculpture
- William Lee (fl. 1768–1810)
- Robert E. Lee’s Testimony before Congress (February 17, 1866)
- The Legal Status and Classification of Virginia Indians
- The Legend of Captaine Jones by David Lloyd (1631)
- John Letcher (1813–1884)
- Letter from Elizabeth “Eliza” Harriot Barons O’Connor to George...
- Letter from Gerald D. Morgan to L. Francis Griffin...
- Letter from James Madison to James Monroe (February 10,...
- Letter from James Madison to Joseph Delaplaine (September 1816)
- Letter from James Madison to Robert J. Evans (June...
- Letter from James Madison to Robert Pleasants (October 30,...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (January 22,...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (October 17,...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (October 24,...
- Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (February 10,...
- Letter from L.Francis Griffin to President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
- Letter from L.Francis Griffin to Sarah Patton Boyle (April...
- Letter from Louisa Alexander to Archer Alexander (November 16,...
- Letter from Nancy to her children (September 17, 1824)
- Letter from Richard S. Ewell to Robert E. Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Richard S. Ewell...
- Letter from Robert Pleasants to James Madison (June 6,...
- Letter from Robert Pleasants to James Madison (June 6,...
- Letter from Sarah Stewart to Dolley Payne Todd Madison...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams (April 20,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison (February...
- Letter to Eliza from Hannah Valentine (November 1, 1837)
- “Letter to the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and...
- Letter to Michael Valentine from Hannah Valentine (January 30,...
- Letters Patents graunted by her Maiestie to Sir Humfrey...
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Lewis Miller’s Virginia Slavery Drawings
- Lewis Rand (1908)
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Colonel George Brooke, Treasurer...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (February...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (October...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (September...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to George Washington (March 6,...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to George Washington (November 14,...
- Andrew Lewis (1720–1781)
- Edna Lewis (1916–2006)
- Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis (1851–1946)
- Fielding Lewis (1725–1781 or 1782)
- Neverson Lewis (ca. 1839–1918)
- Lexington during the Civil War
- Libby Prison
- “The Lie” (ca. 1590s)
- Lieutenant Governors of Virginia
- “Life Among the Lowly, No. 1” by Madison Hemings...
- “Life Among the Lowly, No. 3” by Israel Jefferson...
- “LIFE AMONG THE CONTRABANDS. Harriet A. Jacobs” (September 5,...
- Life and Death on Bermuda; an excerpt from A...
- The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive...
- “Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith” by...
- Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F....
- Jim Limber
- Lewis Lindsey (1843–1908)
- Lines Copied from Tristram Shandy by Martha Wayles Skelton...
- O. Winston Link (1914–2001)
- James F. Lipscomb (1830–1893)
- “A List of Negroes at College” (ca. 1780)
- List of People Enslaved by Descendants of John Pleasants...
- Literacy and Education of the Enslaved in Virginia
- “Literary Notices. Book Table.” The New York Mirror (March...
- The Little Ice Age and Colonial Virginia
- From “Local Brevities” from the Roanoke Times (March 29,...
- Narrative of Dan Josiah Lockhart (1856)
- Logan’s Lament (Virginia Gazette, February 4, 1775)
- James Longstreet (1821–1904)
- Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment
- Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
- Lord Dunmore’s War
- Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775)
- “Lords of Trade to the Earl of Shelburne” (December...
- Loring-Jackson Incident
- The Lost Cause
- Loudoun County Anti-Slave Resolution (December 30, 1831)
- Louisiana Purchase
- Loving v. Commonwealth (March 7, 1966)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Loving v. Virginia (June 12, 1967)
- William P. Lucas (ca. 1843–May 30, 1887)
- Lumpkin’s Jail
- "Lynch Law and Barbarism," Richmond Dispatch ...
- "Lynch Law, Again," Richmond Dispatch (February 19, 1880)
- "Lynch Law"; excerpt from Governor Philip W. McKinney's Address...
- Lynchburg during the Civil War
- Excerpt from the Lynchburg Virginian (September 8, 1831)
- "Lynched!," Staunton Spectator (October 3, 1882)
- "The Lynchers Were Convicted," Richmond Planet ...
- Lynching in Virginia
- The Lynching of John Henry James (1898)
- "The Lynching of Negroes"; chapter 4 of The Negro:...
- Isaiah L. Lyons (1843–1871)
