Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming ...

Over two centuries before Congress first declared Thanksgiving an annual national holiday, the people of Connecticut already had a day to give thanks. In August of 1639, the Colony of Connecticut made ...

WILLIAMSBURG — In colonial times, Santa figurines, Christmas trees, tinsel strands and poinsettia plants played no part in holiday decorations. So, as members of Green Spring Garden Club plan their ...