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.
In the summer of 2023, archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia made an extraordinary discovery: 18th-century glass jars buried in an old cellar. Even more remarkable, the ...