For What Ails You
Medical historian Susan Pryor describes the role of the apothecary in the colonial society, and looks at colonial understanding of disease and treatment.
Medical historian Susan Pryor describes the role of the apothecary in the colonial society, and looks at colonial understanding of disease and treatment.
Historian Cathy Hellier explains the differences between modern American English and the English of the colonists during the 1700s; she looks also at new ideas on the dialect of African Americans in the Williamsburg area at the time. Click here to learn more about 18th century speech.
Naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749) studied and made watercolors of the wildlife and plants of colonial America. Interpreter Robb Warren talks about the man and his art.
Historian Nancy Milton describes the English influences on the U.S. Constitution, including documents reaching as far back as the Magna Carta.
Architectural historian Carl Lounsbury describes the Bodleian Plate, a copper plate preserving an illustration of Williamsburg in 1747. The Plate has been used as reference in the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.
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Architectural historian Ed Chappell explains the reconstruction of the Charlton Coffeehouse in Colonial Williamsburg and the function of the coffeehouse when it stood.
Colonial Williamsburg architect Scott Spence discusses some of the research and work that goes into restoring original 18th-century buildings and creating new buildings to 18th-century standards.
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Director of Teacher Development Tab Broyles describes Colonial Williamsburg's Teacher Institutes and their emphasis on introducing educators to using primary sources in the classroom.
Rural tradesman Wayne Randolph describes the farming of tobacco and the importance of the crop to colonial Virginia.
Louise Kale, director of the Historic Campus, outlines the history and restoration of the College of William and Mary's Wren Building, completed in 1700.