THE stream of writings upon American history has been flowing strongly for a century, until now the field is buried deep with monographs, documents, biographies, textbooks, and political or ...
Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ...
More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups ...
The Miller-Cory House Museum in Westfield is offering an opportunity to experience what childhood was like in colonial times. On May 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. visitors can explore old-fashioned toys and ...
While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is contributing $5 million toward the restoration of a The Bray School, a building used to educate Black children in Virginia during the 1700s. The schoolhouse is ...
Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America ...
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A Time-Travel Road Trip into Virginia’s Colonial Era
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s bicentennial) is already slowly crashing ...
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