WILLIAMSBURG — When Kurt Smith steps out onto a small second-floor balcony on July Fourth and looks out over a sea of people on Duke of Gloucester Street, he’ll be ready to give a speech he’s given ...

Kurt Smith from Colonial Williamsburg will portray Thomas Jefferson at the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford on May 12-13, including a children’s dialogue on May 12. HARTFORD — President ...

The living history museum of Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in Revolutionary-era America, while providing a vivid contrast to today's ...

More than two centuries after Virginia took one of the first steps toward revolution, people gathered on Duke of Gloucester Street on Sunday to commemorate the occasion. The event was the culmination ...

Before the first shots of what would become the war for American Independence were fired in April 1774, colonists were gaining their own identity. Wednesday afternoon, Ida Freeman Elementary students ...

Imagine the opportunity to hear Thomas Jefferson speak on today’s most important societal issues. That’s exactly the aim of The Williamsburg Institute, a new collaborative effort between the Colonial ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — An entrepreneur at the dawn of America, Christiana Burdett Campbell was one of the few women during the 1700s to own and operate an inn. Born around 1723, Campbell learned the ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that the event in Colonial Williamsburg this weekend is a planning event for the 250th-anniversary celebration in 2026. The story ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary are pairing up for a new leadership development institute. The Williamsburg Institute will leverage “Williamsburg’s educational ...