The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Discover the restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School, America's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, and its ...

This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method of building log cabins, which ...

Whether it’s children sporting pointy hats, Hocus Pocus playing on repeat, or homes adorned with bubbling cauldrons and ...

Don McLean's 'American Pie' evokes a sense of Americana through whiskey, symbolizing tradition and camaraderie. Whiskey’s ...

Colonial Williamsburg has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, dating back ...

Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have ...

Scientists uncovered the origin of the oldest known surviving tombstone in the US, according to a new study. Here’s what it ...

Colonial Williamsburg ... the French nobleman who served the American cause (and whose name James would ultimately adopt). Lafayette asked James to sneak across the British lines as a fake ...

A 2 p.m. dedication is open to the public and will include the reading of names of students who attended the school, along with several speeches, panel discussions and interpretive programs.

Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose anti-literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating enslaved people, fearing literacy would encourage them to seek ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Colonial Williamsburg is offering a chance to dig into history with archaeologists from across Virginia on Nov. 16 at its Custis Square site. The site is located on the corner of ...