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- Slavery at the College of William & Mary
- Sound in Jefferson’s Virginia
- Speech by Nathaniel H. Claiborne to the U.S. House...
- Speech of the Cherokee Chief Kittagusta to Indian Agent...
- St. George Tucker (1752–1827)
- Stratford Hall
- Suffolk Resolves (September 15, 1774)
- Tax on Religion; an excerpt from the Journal of...
- Tenant Revolts in Virginia During the American Revolution
- Testimony in the Trial of Gabriel (October 6, 1800)
- Text A of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund...
- The Albemarle Barracks
- The American Revolution in Virginia
- The Battle of Great Bridge
- The Battle of Gwynn’s Island
- The Battle of Hampton (October 26–27, 1775)
- The Bill of Rights
- The Burning of Norfolk
- The Class Tensions Simmering Beneath the Revolution
- The Constitution of the United States (1787–1992)
- The Constitution of Virginia (1776)
- The Continental Navy in Virginia during the American Revolution
- The Declaration Before The Declaration
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Stamp...
- The Economy of the Enslaved in Virginia
- The Election of Governor Thomas Nelson; an excerpt from...
- The Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
- The Fairfax Resolves
- The Federalist Papers: No. 10 (November 23, 1787)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 42 (January 22, 1788)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 54 (February 12, 1788)
- The Fincastle Resolutions
- The Fort Gower Resolves
- The Great Willoughby Slave Escape
- The Great Willoughby Slave Escape of 1776
- The Gunpowder Incident
- The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in Virginia
- The Journal of Ebenezer Hazard in Virginia (1777)
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- The Need for a New Governor of Virginia; an...
- The Pistole Fee Dispute
- The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
- The Proclamation of 1763
- The Revolutionary Fervor for Public Education
- The Seven Years’ War in Virginia
- The Speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (Of Berkeley) in...
- The Stamp Act in Virginia
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (November 5, 1768)
- The Treaty of Hard Labor (1768)
- The Treaty of Hard Labor (October 14, 1768)
- The Treaty of Lochaber (October 18, 1770)
- The U.S. Constitution
- The Virginia Association
- The Virginia Committee of Correspondence
- The Virginia Constitution of 1776
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights – Committee Draft (May...
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights, First Draft (1776)
- The Virginia Plan
- The Virginia Revolutionary Conventions (1774–1776)
- The Virginia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
- Theodorick Bland (March 21, 1742–June 1, 1790)
- Thomas Fuller (ca. 1710–1790)
- Thomas Fuller Obituary, Columbian Centinel (December 29, 1790)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Thomas Jefferson and Architecture
- Thomas Jefferson and His Family
- Thomas Jefferson and Religion
- Thomas Jefferson as Governor of Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson’s Acceptance Speech for the Position of Governor;...
- Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in Howell v. Netherland (1770)
- Thomas Jefferson’s Election to a Second Term as Governor;...
- Thomas Jefferson’s Election to Governor; an excerpt from the...
- Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801)
- Thomas Jefferson’s Instructions to Meriwether Lewis (June 20, 1803)
- Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of...
- Thomas Mann Randolph (1768–1828)
- Thomas Monteagle Bayly (1775–1834)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Trial of George Wythe Sweeney (June 2 and 23,...
- Two Penny Acts (1755, 1758)
- U.S. Presidential Election of 1800
- Underground Railroad in Virginia
- Virginia and the Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Virginia Association (August 6, 1774)
- Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
- Virginia Gentleman, The
- Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions (June 22, 1770)
- Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions (May 17, 1769)
- Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act (1765)
- Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786)
- Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Decision in Pleasants v....
- Virginia Women during the American Revolution
- VIRGINIA: In the High Court of Chancery, MARCH 16,...
- Virginia’s Fifth Revolutionary Convention’s Resolutions for Independence (May 15,...
- Will and Codicil of John Wayles (1760, 1772–1773)
- Will of Bathurst Skelton
- Will of Nancy Tarrant (July 26, 1843)
- William “Billy” Flora (d. ca. 1819)
- William Allen (1768–1831)
- William Brent (July 26, 1733–by ca. April 8, 1782)
- William Brockenbrough (1778–1838)
- William Byrd (1728–1777)
- William Cabell (1730–1798)
- William Campbell (September 1, 1745–August 22, 1781)
- William Christian (ca. 1742–April 9, 1786)
- William Fitzhugh of Chatham (1741–1809)
- William Flora Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants (1806)
- William H. Cabell (1772–1853)
- William Henry Fitzhugh (1792–1830)
- William Lee (fl. 1768–1810)
- Williamsburg during the Colonial Period
- Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761–1820)
- Winfield Scott (1786–1866)
- Women and Political Participation in Revolutionary Virginia
- Women of the Army in the American Revolution
- Wythe, The Death of George (1806)
