With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring residential ...

Wickedpedia Did New England prisoners really eat lobster in colonial times? Legend has it the crustacean was once so plentiful — and held in such low esteem — that it was served as prison food.

The film depicts the daily life of a Puritan family in early colonial New England, focusing on their morning routines, household chores, and interactions with nature and neighbors. The father ...

Rare Colonial New England coin up for auction, expected to fetch $1 million Minted in Boston in 1652, it’s one of the first coins made in the Colonies.

You are a governess who has moved to the colonies from England, isolated from your family in a very different land. Write a letter home to your parents, telling them about your new job and your ...

PATRIOTIC WOMEN MEET; Breakfast of the Colonial Dames at Sherry's. GUESTS FROM MANY OTHER SOCIETIES Elaborate Decorations with the Col- ors of the Colonies, Holland, England, France.

Archaeologists have discovered the homestead of Pompey, a formerly enslaved man from West Africa who was elected "king" by his community in the 1700s.

Whether you're going for the day or want to spend the holiday season in a historic inn, these New England towns exude small-town charm.

This man planted the first apple orchards in colonial America — here's his fascinating story William Blaxton (also Blackstone) arrived in America from England and helped give us the apples we ...

One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, one of the world's most ruthless pirates wandered the American colonies with impunity. Newly ...

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