This image courtesy of Rieley & Associates Landscape Architects shows a preliminary rendering for the reconstructed garden of John Custis IV at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a living history ...

At living history sites, people of color portray figures from the past, revisiting painful issues and revealing hidden narratives. Adam Canaday, a journeyman coach driver at Virginia’s Colonial ...

“All of that,” marveled historian James Horn, president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, “before she is put aboard the Treasurer,” one of two British privateers that delivered the first ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Virginia First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin kicked off their 4th of July celebration last week by presenting a Spirit of Virginia Award to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America ...

Four hundred years ago, a pirate ship carrying enslaved Africans pulled into Point Comfort in Virginia. Was it the beginning of slavery in this country? These days, not much happens on the T-shaped ...

Employing his authority as the Commissary of the Bishop of London in the Colony of Virginia, the Rev. James Blair worked tirelessly to seek approval for “the founding [of] a Colledge in this Country.” ...

It was a narrow wooden bridge situated over the southern branch of the Elizabeth River in difficult terrain amid bogs and swampland, accessible only by narrow causeways on both the north and south ...