America’s independence wasn’t declared in a day — it was forged through years of unrest, resistance, and revolution. This ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. By 1776, various European colonial powers together claimed ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Yet Colonial America’s dirty little secret, exposed by historians in the past decade or two, was that most of the settlers who were captured by or who willingly fled to Native American ...

Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists were under the control of Great Britain, where the legal tender was both gold and silver, known as a ...

Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement try to help people learn about the past through public history. With a dynamic approach — such as putting visitors in the center of the action with ...

Honor journalists from Colonial America to Capital Gazette on July 4th. Signing your name to an article requires courage that we often take for granted.

‘Coins & Currency in Colonial America’ An online exhibit, presented by Colonial Williamsburg, showcases money made both here and abroad that was used through the end of the American Revolution.

Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of opulence: An ornamental garden where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners grew exotic plants from ...

Colonial America's Oldest Unsolved Murder : The Protojournalist Forensic archaeologists at Jamestown may have finally solved a centuries-old crime.