The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Nestled among the scenic byways of the Iowa River lie seven villages where the past merges peacefully with the present. Founded in 1855 by members of the Die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration — ...

With each passing year, the crucial role played by post-Emancipation freedom colonies in Texas history becomes clearer. In our state, these independent communities of landowning people who had been ...

In the year 1750, the prosperous Oyster Bay merchant Samuel Townsend sent out his sloop Solomon under Capt. John Jones on a voyage to the Virgin Islands. The single-masted ship was loaded with cargo: ...

As the 17th century dawned in Europe, two powerful countries pushed west across the ocean on a search for new lands to exploit and settle. Their collision in the New World would decide the future of ...

AMANA COLONIES — How many times have you said you were going to the Amanas, or the Amana Colonies? But did you really mean Amanas plural, or were you just going to the main colony that draws in ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler Photographs by ...

While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of ...

American slavery is commonly understood to have peaked in the late 18th century and was outlawed by the U.S. in the mid-19th century following the Civil War. The practice of slavery in the 17th ...

Colonial Williamsburg was a lot queerer than we were led to believe, and new efforts are underway to make sure this ignorance of LGBTQ+ contributions to American history is soon a thing of the past.