In the 18th century, Europeans were amazed at the...  ...goodbye to friends and neighbors who set off for America and never returned. Those long sea voyages meant...  ...'t mass-produced everywhere. People wanted to see America , or at least pictures of it. A few printmakers se...  ...ensional. Many of these pri...

While the members of the second Continental Congre...  ...the second Continental Congress didn't celebrate American independence with picnics or backyard grilling th...  ...and Reverend Michael Alan, who produced a book on colonial drinking, tell us more. Benjamin Franklin was e...  ...rinkers’ Dictionar...

“Trial by Touch” was a peculiar method...  ...lt in a murder case that was used occasionally in colonial America , brought over from earlier trials in Europe. The...