Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Tyler Griggs, Holiday Vacations, and KWQC-TV6 Chief Meteorologist, Erik Maitland, highlight the exciting details of the upcoming Colonial America: Footsteps to Freedom tour ...

Colonial Williamsburg is expanding ahead of America’s 250th celebration with a new archaeology center opening in April 2026.

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.

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 ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...

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 ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America ...

The Oklahoma State Capitol stepped back in time as more than 500 Oklahoma fifth graders filled the building dressed as colonists, patriots, and historical figures for Colonial Day. The annual event, ...

Nick Mancall-Bitel is the editor of the Travel section, oversees regional correspondents across the Eater network, and manages travel-focused sister site, Thrillist. Dominek Marsh had to make jugged ...