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Colonial Williamsburg News

• Special Offers for Military Families Include the Liberty Lounge
  This week marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of Liberty Lounge, which has offered more than fifty thousand service members and their families a comfortable place to relax and refresh during their visits to the Historic Area. It’s just one of the ways Colonial Williamsburg says thank you to our men and women who have...Read More »
• Nonimportation 1769: A Step on the Road to Revolution
  The streets of Williamsburg were still bustling with activity from the session of the General Court when Lord Botetourt emerged from the Palace and mounted an elegant chariot adorned with the Arms of Virginia and led by six cream-white horses. The recently installed governor was dressed to impress in a bright-red coat with gold braid...Read More »
• Join, or Die! How Snakes were Used as Symbols of American Unity… and Treachery
  In 1754, with the French and Indians attacking British settlements in the Ohio Valley, Benjamin Franklin proposed “a plan for the union of all the colonies.” To illustrate the need for unity, Franklin published (and some think drew) one of America’s earliest political cartoons and perhaps the earliest symbol of a united America (albeit under British...Read M […]
• Why We Can’t Just Get Along: The Origins of American Dissent
  Should we blame the founding generation for planting the seeds of discord that make today’s political climate so toxic? Perhaps a little. The men and women of the Revolutionary era, argues Stephen Solomon, redefined free expression, creating a bedrock American principle that makes no distinction between pleasant and genuinely nasty speech. In other words, we […]
• Abby M. O’Neill, 1928-2017: An Appreciation
  We note with sadness the passing of Abby Milton O’Neill, who carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of service and generosity to Colonial Williamsburg as well as many other worthy causes. Her lifetime involvement with the foundation, which included 28 years on the Board of Trustees and substantial contributions, greatly expanded our ability to share...R […]