Early American currency wasn’t always American. Up until 1857, foreign coins were accepted as legal tender because there weren’t enough domestic coins to go around. Another result of the shortage: To ...

“Help Wanted” ads line the fourth-grade hallway in Love Elementary School, but they aren’t for jobs. They’re meant to illustrate trades that were popular during the Colonial American time period.

In this year of America's 250th birthday, archaeologists and volunteers uncovered British gunflints, coins and the foundation ...

Educators are transforming how students engage with Colonial America by combining interactive simulations, storytelling, visual sources, and real-world experiences. Through role-play, art analysis, ...

captures our country's Federalist and Colonial food traditions in her book, Food in Colonial and Federal America. She documents how American cooking practices changed very little from the early 1600's ...

Much of what separates the good historic sites from the bad is an approach of stewardship rather than social justice. Do the leadership, staff, donors, and partners of a historic site desire to ...

Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Museum of American History in its new exhibition "American Enterprise," displays a prime example of Stephen Burrough's art—a $1 certificate on the Union Bank of Boston, dated 1807, signed ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Interpreter, Harold Caldwell discusses the life of enslaved people living in Colonial America. This lesson uses a video clip from Colonial ...

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