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 ...

The history of firefighting in America can be traced all the way back to Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Founded in 1607 by colonists from the London Company, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A gathering in 1776 on a plantation of enslaved and free Black people in colonial Virginia established what would become one of America's first known Black Christian congregations. Although ...

Yorkshire Pie was commonly made at Christmas time in England and the American colonies, and according to Mount Vernon, was a favorite of George Washington's. It features a rich crust and a whole lot ...

When Pope Leo XIII opened the Vatican archives to researchers in 1881, he quoted with approval the admonition of Cicero that the first duty of an historian is not to tell a lie and the second duty is ...

[Part I. European approaches to the new world] -- Tudor expansion : the transition from medieval to modern history / A.L. Rowse -- State control in sixteenth-century England / Lawrence Stone -- ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

“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 ...

Williamsburg, Va. -- It's 95 degrees outside, sweat is pouring down my neck and the kids won't stop whining about the hotel pool. Thank goodness Colonial Williamsburg knows that there are times when ...