Teacher Resources

Take a tour of a historic building, go behind the scenes of a preservation project, learn more about moments in history and more!

Uncovering Loyalties puts you at the center of the action in pre-revolutionary Virginia.

Take on the role of Secret Agent 6 and travel across the Atlantic World and over 100 years of history to investigate records that connect Enlightenment ideals to the United States Declaration of Independence and beyond.

Explore the community of Williamsburg through this animated series of videos.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's vast collections comprise more than 70,000 examples of fine, decorative, mechanical and folk art.

Immerse yourself in the sites of Colonial Williamsburg from anywhere in the world.

Women played important and, at times, unexpected roles in early Williamsburg.

Discover these stories of resilience and explore those who lived, loved, and strove to create a better future.

Diverse Native nations influenced American culture, democracy, and its struggle for independence.

From recognizable names to people whose names did not grace your history book.

Eighteenth century Williamsburg was a community on the brink of revolution.

For everyone in the new United States, independence meant more than abstract ideals.

Learn more about the events and everyday stories of pre-revolutionary Williamsburg.

Learn more about how the tea crisis swept through Williamsburg and moved Virginia toward revolution.

Learn more about how the people of Williamsburg led the way toward the American Revolution.

Once you’ve chased one government out of town, you have to build new institutions.

Explore the stories of the men and women who have spent decades bringing eighteenth-century Williamsburg alive.

As the first newspaper (and the second, third, and fourth) published in Virginia, the Virginia Gazettes offer one of our richest windows into the stories that Colonial Williamsburg tells.

Just as the printing press allowed for the written word to be shared more easily, the technology of printmaking, developed in around 1400, transformed the accessibility of visual art.

Every object has a story. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg tell the stories of a breathtaking range of folk and decorative art.

The success of the American Revolution has meant the creation and preservation of countless documents, expressing debates, ideas, and laws.

Written by outsiders, travel journals often describe the exotic details of everyday life too boring for an insider to remark on.

All research begins with a question and that carefully crafted question will guide the work. Those questions are answered and supported by using primary and secondary sources.

America’s Founders recognized that one of the most dangerous challenges to their young republic was an uninformed or misinformed population.

Discover how this unique system, which still shapes U.S. presidential elections, was born during the heated debates of 1787.

Who had the right to vote in early America, and why does it matter today?

What kind of government did the Founders create for the United States? And did they have the same definition of a democracy as we do today?

Being a citizen of the United States in the twenty-first century means reckoning with the decisions made in the late eighteenth century. Learn more about the origins of American self-government.

Delve into surprising stories of life in the time of America’s founding.

Create a craft or recipe inspired by 18th-century history.

Articles, photography and art that showcases the life of Williamsburg’s historic core and its people — then and now.

Step into 18th-century life with our Emmy award-winning virtual education programs.

Explore the sites of Colonial Williamsburg in 360 degrees from anywhere in the world.

Dive deeper into the events of the past using our Virtual Timelines.