Nestled among the scenic byways of the Iowa River lie seven villages where the past merges peacefully with the present. Founded in 1855 by members of the Die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration — ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

With each passing year, the crucial role played by post-Emancipation freedom colonies in Texas history becomes clearer. In our state, these independent communities of landowning people who had been ...

AMANA COLONIES — How many times have you said you were going to the Amanas, or the Amana Colonies? But did you really mean Amanas plural, or were you just going to the main colony that draws in ...

As the 17th century dawned in Europe, two powerful countries pushed west across the ocean on a search for new lands to exploit and settle. Their collision in the New World would decide the future of ...

In the year 1750, the prosperous Oyster Bay merchant Samuel Townsend sent out his sloop Solomon under Capt. John Jones on a voyage to the Virgin Islands. The single-masted ship was loaded with cargo: ...

While reading through 18th-century historical records, Colonial Williamsburg’s Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee researcher Ren Tolson discovered something telling buried within the hundreds of ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler Photographs by ...

Colonial Williamsburg was a lot queerer than we were led to believe, and new efforts are underway to make sure this ignorance of LGBTQ+ contributions to American history is soon a thing of the past.