John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929)
John Mitchell Jr. was a prominent newspaper editor, politician, banker, and civil rights activist. Born enslaved near Richmond, Mitchell attended the Richmond Colored Normal School and taught for... Find Out More
- Letter from Robert L. Madison to James Madison (January...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (April 20,...
- Letter from Dolley Madison to John Payne Todd (July...
- Letter from Dolley Madison to Lucy Todd (August 23,...
- Letter from Dolley Madison to Robert G. L. De...
- Letter from James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and...
- Ambrose Madison (ca. 1696–1732)
- Dolley Madison (1768–1849)
- James Madison (1751–1836)
- Madison, James and Slavery
- Madison’s Amendments to the Declaration of Rights (May 29–June...
- Mary Tucker Magill (1830–1899)
- Julia Magruder (1854–1907)
- William Mahone (1826–1895)
- Letter from George Mallory to A. S. Priddy (November...
- Malvern Hill, Battle of
- “Man Servants getting any bastard child to make satisfaction...
- Manassas Gap Railroad during the Civil War
- Manassas, First Battle of
- “The maner of their language”; an excerpt from “Map...
- Ralza M. Manly (1822–1897)
- Manners and Politeness in Early Virginia Indian Society
- The Manumission of Lucy Brooks and Her Children (1862)
- A Map of Virginia. With a Description of the...
- Margaret Ward Morland (1923–2022)
- Marriage in Early Virginia Indian Society
- Marriage of Dr. Blair and Sarah Harrison (June 2,...
- Marriage within Prohibited Degrees, How Punished (1924)
- George C. Marshall (1880–1959)
- Henry Martin (1826–1915)
- Thomas Staples Martin (1847–1919)
- Martinsburg during the Civil War
- “Mary Johnston in Her Home” by Annie Kendrick Walker...
- “Mary Johnston, Author of ‘Prisoners of Hope.'” (1899)
- “Mary Johnston’s New Novel” by E. F. S. (October...
- Letter from Rev. James Marye Jr. to Rev. John...
- Maryland Campaign
- George Mason (1725–1792)
- Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1959)
- The massacre upon the two and twentieth of March”;...
- John E. Massey (1819–1901)
- Massive Resistance
- “Masters of Ships to provide fower months provisions” (1662)
- Mattaponi Tribe
- John Walter Boyd Matthews (1840–July 11, 1879)
- Dabney Herndon Maury (1822–1900)
- Letter from Elizabeth (Betsey) McCarty to the Westmoreland County...
- John A. McCausland (1836–1927)
- George B. McClellan (1826–1885)
- Leander James McCormick (1819–1900)
- McDowell, Battle of
- Irvin McDowell (1818–1885)
- Letter from Thomas McKean to Thomas Jefferson (March 21,...
- Christopher McPherson (ca. 1763–1817)
- McPherson, A Short History of the Life of Christopher...
- McVeigh v. United States (1871)
- Letter from the Rev. Joseph Mead to Sir Martin...
- George Gordon Meade (1815–1872)
- Julian R. Meade (1909–1940)
- Mechanicsville, Battle of
- Medicine in Virginia during the Civil War
- Meeting Granganimeo; an excerpt from “The first voyage made...
- Meeting Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors,...
- Meeting of the Faculty (May 22, 1830)
- Meeting of the Faculty (November 12, 1836)
- Meeting of the Faculty (November 9, 1836)
- Members of the Confederate Congress from Virginia
- Members of the Continental Congress from Virginia
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from...
- Members of the United States Senate from Virginia
- Members of the Virginia State Corporation Commission
- "Memoir of the Author," from Decisions of Cases in...
- Memoirs of Samuel Spottford Clement Relating Interesting Experiences in...
- “Memorable Disasters,” Richmond Enquirer (January 11, 1812)
- Memorandum List of Tithables (July 16, 1770)
- Memorandum List of Tithables (June 20, 1769)
- Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves (ca....
- “A Memorial and Remonstrance” by James Madison (1785)
- A Memoriall Concerning the Mal-administrations of His Excellency Francis...
- “Mendel’s Law: A Plea for a Better Race of...
- Menokin
- Hugh Mercer (1725–1777)
- Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith (1851–1928)
- Meridian
- Meriwether Lewis’s Journal Entries (August 12–13, 1805)
- Meriwether Lewis’s Report to Thomas Jefferson (April 7, 1805)
- Methodists in Early Virginia
- Letter from Robert Michie to David Watson (December 21,...
- Military Executions during the Civil War
- Military Organization and Rank during the Civil War
- John B. Miller Jr. (fl. 1859−1875)
- Mine Run Campaign
- Shadrach Minkins (d. 1875)
- Charles Minnigerode (1814–1894)
- Diary of John B. Minor (February 28–March 7, 1865)
- “Miraculous Escape,” Boston Emancipator and Free American (May 11,...
- “Miscegenation” by Basil L. Gildersleeve (April 18, 1864)
- “Misery and misgovernment”; an excerpt from A true reportory...
- “Miss Johnston’s ‘To Have and to Hold'” (February 10,...
- “Miss Johnston’s Virginia” by Thomas Dixon Jr. (November 1900)
- “Miss Mary Johnston: A Suffrage Worker” (June 11, 1911)
- The Mistreatment of Servant Charetie Dallen (1649)
- John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929)
- “Mob Law.” Staunton Spectator and Vindicator (July 21, 1898)
- Modern Environmental History of Virginia
- Monacan Indian Nation
- Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson (September 15,...
- Andrew Jackson Montague (1862–1937)
- Monticello
- “Monticello”; an excerpt from The Private Life of Thomas...
- Montpelier, Archaeology at
- Virginia Moore (1903–1993)
- “More Fugitive Slaves,” New York Daily Times (May 14,...
- Morgan v. Commonwealth (June 6, 1945)
- Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
- Morgan v. Virginia (June 3, 1946)
- Peter G. Morgan (1817–1890)
- John Singleton Mosby (1833–1916)
- William P. Moseley (ca. 1819 or 1820–1890)
- Frank Moss (d. by August 6, 1884)
- “The most promising work”; an excerpt from “Exhibition of...
- Moton School Strike and Prince Edward County School Closings
- Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940)
- Mount Vernon, Archaeology at
- Mourning during the Civil War
- “Mr Strachie’s Harke” by William Strachey
- “Mrs. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson Denounces ‘The Long Roll'” by Mary...
- Mundus novus (1503)
- Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (1865–1938)
- Robert Munford (d. 1783)
- Benjamin Muse (1898–1986)
- Museum of the Confederacy
- Mutiny on the Ferrers Galley; an excerpt from A...
- “Mysteries of a Shamble,” New-York Tribune (July 15, 1861)
