Colonial Flag and the Colonial Flag Foundation provide turnkey patriotic displays and historic flag exhibits to support ...

Early American currency wasn’t always American. Up until 1857, foreign coins were accepted as legal tender because there weren’t enough domestic coins to go around. Another result of the shortage: To ...

In many historic towns, we look at old buildings and imagine what life might have been like. In Colonial Williamsburg, ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

A bi-annual forum for scholars who explore the colonial and revolutionary history of America. The symposium features prominent scholars in early American history as keynote speakers. The symposium ...

Blacksmith Keith Chester of Arlington pounds hot metal during a smithing demonstration on Saturday at Northwest Colonial Festival on the grounds of the George Washington Inn and Estate east of Port ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.