While there’s historical evidence that rum was the first spirit produced in America in the 1600s, thanks to the importing of ...

During the 1760s, George Washington wrote to the Laird family in New Jersey, pleading for the recipe for a bewitching “cyder ...

A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, the living history museum in Virginia serves historic foods that feel urgently ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

One of the oldest known pieces of colonial American silver is now a part of the impressive and still growing silver collection of Colonial Williamsburg. The newly acquired caudle cup — crafted in ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The third annual Yorktown Tea Festival will be held at The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown on Nov. 7.

Grids of black-and-white portraits fill the walls of El Museo del Barrio alongside footage on old TV screens in the center ...

“Power dressing” may not have been a catchphrase in colonial Latin America, but it was undoubtedly a familiar concept. For the elite, a command of fashion signaled status, wealth and worldly ...