Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

A gathering in 1776 on a plantation of enslaved and free Black people in colonial Virginia established what would become one of America's first known Black Christian congregations. Although ...

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like before the park was established in 1949? Independence Hall sits now ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Michelle McDonald, library and museum director at the American Philosophical Society, provided an introduction to her lecture about the role and ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

"The moniker United States of America has remained since then as a symbol of freedom and independence," states the National Constitution Center. After enumerating a lengthy list of grievances against ...

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...