Carrie Buck was the plaintiff in the notorious Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) that authorized Buck’s forced sterilization. Producer Miranda Bennett interviews the scholar Paul Lombardo and visits the former Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Lynchburg. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Buck_Carrie_Elizabeth_1906-1983

The Battle of the Crater was one of the strangest and most heartbreaking of Civil War battles. It began with the largest explosion to date in the Western Hemisphere and ended with a massacre. Host Brendan Wolfe and producer Miranda Bennett also interview Emmanuel Dabney, of the National Park Service, who talks about what happened at the battle’s anniversary reunion. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crater_Battle_of_the

Carrie Buck was the plaintiff in the notorious Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) that authorized Buck’s forced sterilization. Producer Miranda Bennett interviews the scholar Paul Lombardo and visits the former Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Lynchburg. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Buck_Carrie_Elizabeth_1906-1983

The Battle of the Crater was one of the strangest and most heartbreaking of Civil War battles. It began with the largest explosion to date in the Western Hemisphere and ended with a massacre. Host Brendan Wolfe and producer Miranda Bennett also interview Emmanuel Dabney, of the National Park Service, who talks about what happened at the battle’s anniversary reunion. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Crater_Battle_of_the

Anthony Johnson was a slaveholder on the Eastern Shore who, earlier in life, had been known only as “Antonio a Negro.” Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00003352mets.xml

Marion Harland's Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery was an instant success when it was published in 1871. The Virginian brought cookbooks to the masses while defending the traditional roles of women. Producer Miranda Bennett also talks to Sarah Searle, proprietor of the cooking blog the Yellow House. Read more: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Harland_Marion_1830-1922

Thomas Savage was a Jamestown colonist who, as a boy, was given over to the Indians. He spent the rest of his life negotiating the precarious line between two warring cultures. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Savage_Thomas_ca_1595-before_September_1633

Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Richards Bowser were two mysterious women with deep connections to the Episcopal Church. Both Union spies during the Civil War, one ended her life a pariah while the other disappeared from history. Producer Miranda Bennett also talks to Grace Aheron, an Episcopalian grappling, like Van Lew and Bowser, with her role in a large and complex community. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bowser_Mary_Richards_fl_1846-1867 and https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Van_Lew_Elizabeth_L_1818-1900

After nine years abroad, a Virginia Indian returns home with a group of Jesuits in tow. The priests write an excited letter to their superior and are never heard from again. Read more here: http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Don_LuA

Trapped in Mexico City, a newly baptized Indian misses his chance to return home. Back in Spain he touches the fire and bides his time. Read more here: http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Don_LuA