Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...

Costumed interpreters, such as Ron Carnegie, who portrays George Washington at Colonial Williamsburg, are tasked with helping bring history to life for ... as well as the American Revolution ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous ... in the endurance of traditional ways of life, and in the continuation and evolution of the primary Indian response ...

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate found a hoard of 18th-century bottles buried in an old cellar holding their original contents from 250 years before.

Colonial Williamsburg, which is in the Tidewater region of Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum, offering an authentic recreation of life in 18th-century America. Together with ...

One thing Saniga hopes to impart is that American Indians were extremely prevalent during daily life in Colonial Williamsburg. “Native people are a normal part of the fabric of society,” he said.

Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.

Copies of styles from the early years of the American republic, or the Federal period, have been popular since the 1870s. This is when the Colonial Revival period began, celebrating the Centennial ...

Market St., Nappanee. Focused on the years 1750 to 1815, the event features more than 200 reenactors and demonstrators, shopping opportunities, live Colonial era music, workshops featuring 1700s ...