Speculation during the Civil War
Speculation, which involved driving up prices on desperately needed consumer goods, was both rampant and roundly condemned in the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865).... Find Out More
- Sailor’s Creek, Battles of
- Saltville during the Civil War
- Salutary Neglect
- “Sambo and the Ass” by Basil L. Gildersleeve (April...
- Sandy, T. O. (1857–1919)
- Sandys, Sir Edwin (1561–1629)
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
- Savage, Thomas (ca. 1595–before September 1633)
- Savage’s Station, Battle of
- Schele De Vere, Maximilian (1820–1898)
- “Schools May Close Again.” Clinch Valley News (December 13,...
- Scott, Winfield (1786–1866)
- Sea Venture
- Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Seaton, George Lewis (ca. 1822–1881)
- Seawell, Molly Elliot (1860–1916)
- Second Charter of Virginia (1609)
- Second Manassas Campaign
- Secretariat (1970–1989)
- Segura, Juan Baptista de (1529–1571)
- Separation of Races (1926)
- Seven Days’ Battles
- Seven Pines, Battle of
- Shenandoah National Park
- Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
- Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War
- Shenandoah
- Shepherdstown, Battle of
- Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe (August 30,...
- "Sheridan's Raid" (March 24, 1865)
- "Sheridan's Raid"; an excerpt from Sabres and Spurs by...
- The Case of Grace Sherwood (1706)
- Sherwood, Grace (ca. 1660–1740)
- The Ship “Thomas”; chapter 7 of Liverpool and Slavery...
- Shoes at Gettysburg
- Shooting, Victims of the Virginia Tech Mass (2007)
- Sigel, Franz (1824–1902)
- Sir Walter Raleigh’s Patent to Settle Virginia (1584)
- “Sketches in the Free and Slave States of America”...
- Slave Clothing and Adornment in Virginia
- Slave Housing in Virginia
- Slave Insurance
- Slave Literacy and Education in Virginia
- “A Slave of George Washington!” by Benjamin Chase, The...
- Slave Sale Advertisement, Virginia Gazette (November 28, 1777)
- Slave Sales
- Slave Ship, The (1924)
- Slave Ships and the Middle Passage
- Slave Trade, Eyre Crowe’s Images of the
- Slavery at the College of William and Mary
- Slavery at the University of Virginia
- Slavery during the Civil War
- List of Slaves Returned from British by Lund Washington...
- Letter from Virginia Slaves to Bishop Edmund Gibson (August...
- Smith Map
- Smith, Chapter 2, Book 3 of The Generall Historie...
- Smith, Dabney N. (September 1846–August 27, 1920)
- Smith, Howard Worth (1883–1976)
- Smith, John (bap. 1580–1631)
- Smith, Life Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen...
- Smythe, Sir Thomas (ca. 1558–1625)
- “Some Facts That Should Come to Light,” New-York Tribune...
- Somers, Sir George (1554–1610)
- Sound in Colonial Virginia
- Sound in Jefferson’s Virginia
- South Side Railroad during the Civil War
- Southern Claims Commission in Virginia, The
- Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by...
- Southern Literary Messenger
- “The Southern Problem and its Solution” (1893)
- Special Orders No. 191 by Robert E. Lee (1862)
- Speculation during the Civil War
- Speech by James H. Gholson to the House of...
- Speech by John C. Underwood (January 16, 1868)
- Speech by Nathaniel H. Claiborne to the U.S. House...
- Speech by Samuel McDowell Moore to the House of...
- Speech by William B. Preston to the House of...
- Speech by William H. Brodnax to the House of...
- The Speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (Of Berkeley) in...
- Spencer, Anne (1882–1975)
- Spong, William Belser Jr. (1920–1997)
- Spotswood, Alexander (1676–1740)
- Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of
- “Spread by Careless Folk” (October 2, 1918)
- “Spread of Influenza” (October 16, 1918)
- “Standing Interrogatories,” Southern Claims Commission (1874)
- Letter the Fifth; an excerpt from Observations on a...
- Letter the Third; an excerpt from Observations on a...
- Stanley, Thomas B. (1890-1970)
- The Starving Time and Rescue; an excerpt from “A...
- Starving Time, The
- Statement by Francis Preston Blair (April 14, 1871)
- “Statements,” Richmond Enquirer (January 2, 1812)
- States’ Rights
- The Statutes of the College of William and Mary...
- Staunton during the Civil War
- Steward, Excerpt from Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty...
- Letter from John Stockdale to Thomas Jefferson (July 10,...
- Stonewall Brigade
- “Stop Influenza,” Big Stone Gap Post (October 9, 1918)
- “The story of ‘Uncle’ Moble Hopson” (1936)
- “The story of Charles Crawley, ex slave” (1937)
- The Story of Guillaume Rouffi; an excerpt from Relación...
- The Story of Juan Ortiz; an excerpt from The...
- The Story of Marguerite de La Roque; an excerpt...
- Strachey, William (1572–1621)
- “A strange dream this day”; an excerpt from the...
- Stratford Hall
- Diary of Sarah A. G. Strickler (March 2–10, 1865)
- Stuart, Alexander H. H. (1807–1891)
- Stuart, Flora Cooke (1836–1923)
- Stuart, Henry Carter (1855–1933)
- Stuart, J. E. B. (1833–1864)
- Studies in Bibliography
- “The Summarie of the Marshall Lawes.” (1612)
- “Summary of Public Service” by Thomas Jefferson (After September...
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America...
- “The Sun Do Move” by John Jasper (1878)
- Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia...
- Surrender to Parliament (Treaty of Jamestown)
- Swallow Barn (1832)
- Swanson, Claude A. (1862–1939)
- Syphax, John Bryce (d. September 8, 1916)
