The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South, driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including ... in the 18th century. Maps and documents from the ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... Concord and Bunker Hill. The Governor of Virginia, whose royal title was Lord Dunmore, on the other hand, sought to disrupt the American ...