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Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot

Beneath the asphalt parking lot of America’s largest living history museum, gravesites linked to one of the nation’s oldest Black churches remained hidden for decades until last year. Archaeologists ...

Watch: Old New Castle, Delaware's colonial history and landmarks

Brick sidewalks, colonial homes and national landmarks like the New Castle Court House Museum tell the story of old New ...
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Historical DNA Links Colonial Graves to 1.3 Million Living Relatives and May Have Identified the Colony’s Second Governor

Learn how researchers used DNA and 23andMe to connect 17th-century Maryland colonists to more than 1.3 million living people ...

9 fascinating Colonial-era words to brush up on for America’s 250th birthday

The United States of America will celebrate its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. These nine words were used in colonial times.

Explore the Lincoln village whose quarries helped build early America

Walk through Lincoln's Lime Rock village, with relics of the limestone industry that once supplied mortar to the East Coast ...
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NEH Fellowship Supports Bucknell Professor's Research on Early American Moravian Music

Professor Ryan Malone, music, received a highly competitive fellowship to advance research on the overlooked contributions of ...
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Lancaster County museum celebrates America 250 with colonial-era events

Lancaster County museum celebrates America 250 with colonial-era events ...
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Ancient DNA clarifies the early history of American colonial horses

A newly identified 16th century horse specimen is among the oldest domestic horses from the Americas known to date, and its DNA helps clarify the history of horses in the Western Hemisphere, according ...
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Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America / edited by Robert Blair St. George

Based on papers presented at a conference held in June 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American ...
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Religion in colonial America

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.