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 ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary recently received a $5 million grant to revitalize and restore a key piece of colonial American history. The Andrew W.

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 ...

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 ...

John M. Murrin, Princeton professor of history, emeritus, a scholar of American colonial and revolutionary history and the early republic, died May 2 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in ...

Bring a dash of history to your yard by planting the same crops American figureheads used to have in their gardens. In ...

"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 ...

NEW YORK – Cheyney McKnight waited years to celebrate Pinkster. On a scorching Saturday morning in May, McKnight put on her tailor-made 18th-century Malian mud cloth dress and trekked 7 miles with a ...

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 ...

Long before Facebook, Instagram, the internet, and other forms of social media, getting news and information out to the masses was very different from today. Sure, there were newspapers, but they were ...