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 ...

This video is no longer available. Their contributions helped establish colonial Virginia, but the stories of enslaved and freedmen who rowed down the James River to move goods aren’t well known to ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

March 22 marks significant historical events. In 1622, an Indian massacre occurred in Virginia. The Stamp Act was enacted in 1765, fueling the American Revolution. Motion pictures were demonstrated by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s bicentennial) is already slowly crashing ...

Growing up as a Virginian in the 1980s, Colonial Williamsburg was always on everyone’s radar for family road trips. We’d go for a weekend getaway to immerse in our Commonwealth’s early history, and ...

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of opulence: An ornamental garden where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners ...