The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...

In the American colonies, governing structures varied ... creating bustling ports along the Atlantic seaboard. However, colonial prosperity wasn’t equally shared. Plantation economies in the ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal.

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 ...

Colonial Williamsburg, which is in the Tidewater region of Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum, offering an authentic recreation of life in 18th-century America. Together with ...

Charles “Chuck” Longsworth served as foundation president from 1977 to 1992 and board chairman from 1991 to 1994.

The Colonial Pipeline has temporarily shut its main gasoline line – America’s largest fuel pipeline – because of leak in Georgia, the pipeline’s operator and local officials said.

A 17th-century fishing treaty between a New York indigenous tribe and the then-royal government isn’t enforceable over ...