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As most parents know, traveling with kids can be totally awesome or totally catastrophic. Our secret recipe for success when ...
Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like ...
A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.
From colonial legends to breathtaking mountain vistas, the cultural and natural treasures of Virginia and the American South ...
As crews made way for the construction of a new sports center on Colonial Williamsburg Foundation property, archaeologists first took to the area to see if 18th century maps and period documents ...
Likewise, Janice Canaday, the African American community engagement manager for Colonial Williamsburg, who traces her lineage back to Elisha and Mary Jones, who attended the Bray School as free ...
In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...
These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—The Wren Building is the oldest building on the campus of the College of William & Mary, America’s second oldest institution of higher learning. The college was ...
I've spent 30 years helping Californians learn more about themselves and their history, largely through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. President Trump has now gutted it.
An overview of how Bermuda’s early colonial government drew up the legislative basis for enslavement on the island has been published in a leading scholarly journal. The work, by historian ...
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 ...