News for 2025: the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are free to visit!

I learned a lot of American history while I was in Palm Desert, but these two desert discoveries stood out.

Colonial Williamsburg's Cry Witch is an immersive performance about Grace Sherwood's trial.

Every day is loaded with history! So what happened in American history on August 3rd? I've got a list for you.

What was Thomas Jefferson thinking as he penned the Declaration of Independence? Colonial Williamsburg may have a performance that offers insight.

Juneteenth is a day of celebration. I'm choosing to honor it with a poem from Phyllis Wheatley.

Have you seen a piece of history before it went into storage for the rest of your life? For me, that's Kinheche.

From Wassailing to Dick Clark, New Year's Eve in American history. Small bits as I wish you a Happy 2024!

Reasons to visit the Tudor house that travelled to America during the Gilded Age because of TC and Bessie Williams.

We heard music from Jefferson's library that was unlikely performed for hundreds of years!

Past meets present when you visit the Raleigh Tavern, an 18th century reconstruction showing off the Daphne and Apollo rooms, where liberty happened.

How did music start out in early America? It was all-American from the beginning!

When you acquire a 1690's painting and the frame is not original, creating a period-style frame happens, at least in Williamsburg!