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 ...

Living in the Colonial Era has returned at North Augusta’s Living History Park this weekend with the Colonial Times event. Lynn Thompson, president of the Olde Town Preservation Association with the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Colonial Williamsburg, considered the world’s largest living history museum, is constantly working ...

It was the holiday season in the colony of Virginia in 1774. At his house in Williamsburg, Peyton Randolph and his wife, Elizabeth, gathered with their household and friends, including his cousin ...

Have you ever marveled at old news headlines, like the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, or the great scare over the War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast? Patt Morrison talks with the authors of a collection ...

At Colonial Williamsburg, the largest outdoor living museum in the country, it’s not uncommon for visitors to witness a team of archaeologists, hands in the dirt, actively discovering history. These ...

The Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg reported last month that the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is researching LBGTQ history in America’s Colonial era with the intent of developing programming at ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Patrick Henry’s proclamation, “Give me liberty or give me death,” brings cheers, but a slave auction that tore families apart brings tears in Colonial Williamsburg. Today, ...

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...