Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...

The nine colleges that existed in the original 13 colonies when the Revolutionary War broke out each shaped the new nation’s political culture in a distinct way, says J. David Hoeveler, professor of ...

SEQUIM — The Northwest Colonial Festival returns for its fourth year beginning Thursday and continuing through Sunday. Volunteers show what life was like in colonial times and reenact the events of ...

In many Colonial Williamsburg programs, audience members tend to sit back and watch a narrative unfold, understanding history from an outside lens. But in “Revolutionary Points of View,” guests are ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented ...

Bernard Bailyn, an influential and significant historian of the American colonial period, passed away last week at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. The cause of death was heart failure. He was 97.

Colonial Williamsburg’s latest art acquisition highlights the story of someone who lived through the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg recently added ...