As we get closer to July, when our country turns 250-years-old, Throwback Thursday will have one segment each month that highlights what was happening in the colonies leading to the American ...

Daniel Boone Homestead’s A Revolutionary Children’s Day May 3 offers hands-on activities such as textile processing, candle ...

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 ...

Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) — A revolutionary discovery has been made at Colonial Williamsburg. Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg have found the remains of a Revolutionary War barracks on ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg have unearthed remains of Revolutionary War barracks, including items believed to have used by military officers, on a site near the foundation’s ...

The Stamp Act of 1765, a British parliamentary measure, mandated taxes on most printed materials in the American colonies, ranging from newspapers to legal documents. Enacted to help defray the costs ...

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 ...

Long before the United States declared independence from King George III, generations of Savannahians were laid to rest at ...