A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

Colonial Williamsburg has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, dating back ...

Colonial Williamsburg sits in the center of its succeeding ... of the colony's weaponry and ammunition), the old-time church, tavern and theater, and the period homes. Because there is so much ...

The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also has identified more ... Phoebe, 3, was the property of local tavern keepers. Another student, Isaac Bee, later emancipated himself. In newspaper ads seeking ...

Modern America’s birthplace is bereft of hot dogs, French fries and pizza. I taste not a single burger on the journey to Jamestown, Virginia, site of the US’s first English settlement. But do I go ...