WILLIAMSBURG — At just 4 years old, Ethan Rose is already something of a budding history enthusiast. Last year, the preschooler from Washington, D.C., had an archaeology phase, and right now, his ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

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

Travel guide website Daily Passport has listed two Virginia locations among its “Six Fascinating Early Colonial America History Sites to Visit.” Colonial Williamsburg and its historic area and St.

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...