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.

Perhaps the most important thing to know about Colonial-style homes is that “Colonial” technically refers to a time period ..

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 ...

These accounts are rare: few letters sent by emigrants during the colonial period exist. The letters reveal the motivations, experiences, characteristics, and emotions of these people, who populated ...

Between managing a printing shop, pioneering the development of the U.S. postal system, establishing the first lending library in America ... In the Colonial period, paper money was a relatively ...

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 ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

Both Dulany and Noblin came to Colonial ... time the master lost while they were gone to as much a ten-to-one penalty authorized in Maryland at one time. Both systems saw extending the period ...

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

The New Synagogue drew inspiration for its renovations from Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue, the oldest Jewish temple in the ...

Historical evidence then pointed the study authors to a Belgian tombstone export business thriving at the time, where they ..

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.