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

THOMASVILLE- The Reverend George Wilcox Brown, III, 4th Rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, presented a program to the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century. His topic ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell opens her lecture on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies with a ...

Introduction : Indian slavery in historical context / Alan Gallay -- Indian slavery in colonial New England / Margaret Ellen Newell -- "They shalbe slaves for their lives" : Indian slavery in colonial ...

Part I. Race and colonization. 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R.

Susanna Wright, of Wright’s Ferry on the Susquehanna, was one of the most accomplished and versatile Pennsylvanians of the 18th century. She deserves more recognition. The most detailed published ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Michelle McDonald, library and museum director at the American Philosophical Society, provided an introduction to her lecture about the role and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colonial House in Winter A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States ...