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"1607 Jamestown and the New World"

1607: Jamestown and the New World, tells the stories of the Indians who lived here before the English arrived, of the settlers who crossed the ocean, and of what happened when Old and New Worlds met.

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"Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to Be Both Free and Equal
A Plan of Thematic Interpretation"

Becoming Americans explains how diverse peoples, holding different and sometimes conflicting personal ambitions, evolved into a society that values both liberty and equality.

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"M. De Garsault's 1767 Art of The Shoemaker"

D.A. Saguto, master boot- and shoemaker for Colonial Williamsburg, presents an English translation the key text from the period: M. De Garsault’s Art du cordonnier.

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"Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773–1885"

This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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"Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America"

In the first comprehensive book on the topic, Colonial Williamsburg curators Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen Hood chronicle the traditions of stoneware imported from England and Germany as well as the work of American potters.

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"Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Preaching Religion and Community, with Selected Sermons and Other Primary Documents"

Edward L. Bond offers a key selection of sermons and documents taken from his complete work in this abridged edition.

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"The Revolution in Virginia: 1775-1783"

Guests excited about their Revolutionary City experience can delve further into the subject. Originally published in 1988, John E. Selby's The Revolution in Viriginia is now offered in paperback.

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"The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia"

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"Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century"

A look at the complex society of eighteenth-century Virginia from the planters of the Tidewater to the Scotch-Irish and German farmers in the Shenandoah Valley.

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"We Hold These Truths . . . And Other Words That Made America"

“An entertaining and educational romp through Revolutionary history."

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"Witches and Ghosts, Pirates and Thieves, Murder and Mayhem"

Based on Colonial Williamsburg’s popular evening programs, “Cry Witch” and “Legends, Myths, Mysteries, and Ghosts,” here are scary stories from the 18th century.

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