Reverend Peter Fontaine, Defense of Slavery in Virginia George Washington was a wealthy Virginia planter whose life story speaks of the paradoxical attitude of whites of his time toward slavery.

The story of these enslaved people at the settlement reflects the larger picture of Africans in North America during that time period. Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon, a wealthy sugar plantation owner on ...

The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial America ... solved a longstanding problem. Some time in the late 1500s, a lid was added ...

Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the ... enlightening and insightful vignettes on the colonial period. It explores the movements of different groups of people throughout colonial Spanish ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of opulence ... while descriptions from the time reference lead statues of Greek deities and topiaries trimmed ...

Decades of economic, political and social neglect have now metastasised into a scenario that sees Pakistan seemingly heading ...

Surprisingly, given their hostility to Japan and their eagerness to depict the 1895-1945 colonial period as a dark age ...

especially in Colonial Williamsburg, which, with 301 acres, rightfully is called America’s largest “living museum” and a long-time fixture on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Families can experience living history at Colonial Market Days this weekend in Lebanon. Dedicated reenactors from all over the country will camp, sell their authentic handmade wares, and demonstrate ...

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and iCivics released a new game that uses the eve of the American Revolution to teach ...

The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...

They have the time ... America teach its history? These are also questions that Colonial Williamsburg staff members are forced to answer for hundreds of thousands of visitors across the political ...