During the Colonial era, tea was often a staple of polite society. It was served with morning breakfast as well as at afternoon and evening social events.

ENJOYING a drink by the beach is usually the best part of most seaside day trips. And at the Captain Digby in Broadstairs, ...

The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia is holding its annual convention in Lincoln at the end of July.

When we commemorate the formal birthday of the United States of America, we don’t just celebrate a place, a set of governmental institutions, and a shared history that binds together people ...

On July 2, 1776, 12 of the 13 member-states of the Congress “unanimously” observed that the colonies “are, and of right ought ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The Declaration of Independence is a foundational document in American history. It was officially adopted by the Second ...

The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, William & Mary announced ...

The excavation of the Williamsburg Bray School has yielded hundreds of artifacts, providing a glimpse into the lives of Black ...