Books & Media

Colonial Williamsburg: The Guide

No visit to Colonial Williamsburg is complete without our official guidebook! This first new edition of Colonial Williamsburg's official guide since 2014, this book includes information on all of Colonial Williamsburg's historic sites. This guide...

The Williamsburg Bray School: A History Through Records, Reflections, and Rediscovery

Seven letters that trace the arc of the Williamsburg Bray School—from its founding in 1760 to its closing in 1774—are the foundation for a collection of essays that explores history and implications of the 18th-century school for enslaved and...

Restoring Williamsburg

From our fascinating and highly readable best-selling classic, Williamsburg Before and After to our revised and expanded edition, Restoring Williamsburg combines the history of a major restoration bringing the story up to present. Sheds new...

Colonial Williamsburg: The Story

It was in Williamsburg, Virginia, that American independence—and democracy—took root. And it is in the Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg that millions have learned about the continuing relevance of America's founding ideas. Spanning...

Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg

Virginia, of course, is famous for its hospitality. Drawing on that tradition, here's a treasure trove of ideas for celebrating special occasions throughout the year from Colonial Williamsburg Publications. From a winter anniversary to a spring wedding,...

Recipes from the Raleigh Tavern Bake Shop

Gingerbread cookies and other goodies from the Raleigh Tavern Bake Shop bring back delicious memories for generations of Williamsburg visitors. In this cookbook, original recipes from rare 18th-century cookbooks are presented side-by-side with their...

Melody Harp

This finely crafted wood zither, or Melody Harp, is one of the easiest instruments a child can play. Slide one of the included song sheets under the strings and follow the "dots" with the pick - no reading skills required. The song sheets include the...

The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook

It's six o'clock, stomachs are rumbling and suddenly you have a yearning for the Crab and Shrimp Stuffed Flounder you enjoyed at Christiana Campbell's Tavern. No problem. Pull out The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook, roll up your sleeves, and in an...

Painters and Paintings in the Early American South

Painters and Paintings in the Early American South by the Juli Grainger, Curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, gathers into one volume a large body of materials related to the paintings and the artists of the American South between 1564 and...

Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Raleigh Floral Green Notecards

Send a thoughtful handwritten note with timeless sophistication using the Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Raleigh Floral Green Notecards — a graceful blend of history, artistry, and modern craftsmanship. Inspired by a woodblock print textile in the...

Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Finley Floral Notecards

Send a thoughtful handwritten note with timeless sophistication using the Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Finely Floral Notecards — a graceful blend of history, artistry, and modern craftsmanship. Inspired by a textile fragment in the collections of...

Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Palace Garden Notecards

Send a thoughtful handwritten note with timeless sophistication using the Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Palace Garden Notecards — a graceful blend of history, artistry, and modern craftsmanship. Inspired by a French textile fragment in the...

Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Butterfly Chintz Notecards

Send a thoughtful handwritten note with timeless sophistication using the Williamsburg x Dogwood Hill Butterfly Chintz Notecards — a graceful blend of history, artistry, and modern craftsmanship. Inspired by an 18th-century French wall covering...

Colonial Williamsburg Hotch Potch ABC Book

Introduce your child to the alphabet in a fun, historically inspired way! The Colonial Williamsburg Hotch Potch ABC Book uses the delightful "Hotch Potch" alphabet, where playful characters twist and turn to form the letters. Inspired by the 1782 print,...

Colonial Williamsburg Magnolia & Chickadee Christmas Cards

Send warm holiday greetings with our Colonial Williamsburg Magnolia & Chickadee Christmas Cards. This set of 16 cards, complete with envelopes and a storage box, has a beautiful design perfect for the season. The front of each card features an...

The United States Constitution - The Full Text With Supplementary Materials

The United States Constitution - The Full Text With Supplementary Materials, by Dover Publications, is an excellent resource for students and history enthusiasts alike. The basis of our nation's law and government, the Constitution is America's most...

What Is the Constitution?

What is the Constitution? is an illustrated book by Patricia Brennan Demuth for kids ages 8-12 that provides readers with the whole story–arguments and all–of how the United States Constitution came into being. This book...

Colonial Williamsburg Kids Sticker Playset

How will the people of Colonial Williamsburg dress today? This fun Colonial Williamsburg Kids Sticker Playset lets kids answer that very question! The trifold sticker book features people inside three of Williamsburg's iconic buildings, The Raleigh...

WILLIAMSBURG Yuletide Cheer Wine Gift Bag 13"

Easily wrap wine, spirits, and other uniquely shaped gifts with the Yuletide Cheer Wine Gift Bag from the WILLIAMSBURG brand. This durable gift bag features a classic green and red color scheme and is made of heavy-duty paper with sturdy handles for easy...

It’s Hard to Tell When a Tradition Begins…A Vaillancourt Christmas

After nearly forty years of running Vaillancourt Folk Art, a company dedicated to crafting heirloom quality Christmas treasures, Gary Vaillancourt has a good sense of what tradition can do for a family, which he shares here in It’s Hard to Tell...

Colonial Williamsburg Leicester Sheep Christmas Cards

Send warm holiday greetings with our Leicester Longwool Sheep Christmas Cards. This set of 16 cards, complete with envelopes and a storage box, features a beautiful design perfect for the season. The front of each card showcases a sheep alongside the...

Antique Brown Birds on a Branch Bookends Set

Turn a utilitarian object into a functional decoration with the Birds on a Branch Bookends set! Each bookend is shaped like a tree branch with two little songbirds perched on top. We love these bookends used to display attractive vintage books. The...

The Hammerman of Williamsburg DVD

The Hammerman in Williamsburg DVD is back from the archives! Produced in 1973, this 38 minute film features a master blacksmith who explains why the "hammerman" was one of the most vital craftsmen in town. Year-round work for the blacksmith kept the...

Reproduction Fabric Magnet Set

This set of four Reproduction Fabric Magnets makes a beautiful and practical keepsake for your home. Each magnet features a printed motif of our 18th century reproduction fabrics including: India Garden, Palace Blue Flowers, Birds in Fleur and Wavy...

Marquis de Lafayette Returns Guide Book

Walk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States! Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution returned to America for the first time in forty years...

The Pursuit of Happiness Book by Jeffrey Rosen

A New York Times bestseller and an "enriching…brilliant" (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase...

An Oral History: Preserve Your Family's Story

Chronicle a parent's story and family history details with the An Oral History: Preserve Your Family's Story guided journal! Use this book as a conversation guide between parent and adult child to record memories and family histories. Tips on recording...

Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era

Known to history as "Dunmore's War," the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royal command. Led by John...

"We the People" Constitution Journal

Draw inspiration from the words of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America as you pen your own thoughts with this "We the People" Journal! This hardbound journal features lined pages inside. Makes a great gift for history buffs...

Obsidian Journal

This Obsidian Journal has a traditional book cover in black with gold embossed details on the cover, inspired by a 17th-century bound book from France. The lined pages inside are edged in gold to complete the look. Makes a great gift and handsome journal...

Old World Internet Address & Password Logbook

Keep track of websites, passwords, software licenses, and device information with this Old World Internet Address & Password Logbook. Features an antique map cover, tabbed A-Z pages, and a removable cover band. Features Multicolor antique map...

Bird of Paradise Journal

Add timeless design and elegance to your desk with this gorgeous Bird of Paradise Writing Journal! This hardbound journal features a beautiful cover with a bird of paradise in the center and a border of stylized fruits and foliage, with gold...

You Can Learn Children's Craft Kit - Calligraphy

Teach your kids a skill from the early days of American life with You Can Learn Craft Kits! This children's calligraphy kit allows kids to imagine and experience what life was like in the past when young girls and boys learned how to write with a quill...

You Can Learn Children's Craft Kit - Weaving

Teach your kids a skill from the early days of American life with You Can Learn Craft Kits! This children's weaving kit allows kids to imagine and experience what life was like in the past when young girls and boys learned useful skills to contribute to...

Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first...

Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and...

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories...

Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of...

The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to...

Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government...

Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional...

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of...

The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this...

Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740

Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early...

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from...

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States

Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which categories of people could remain and which should be subject to removal. The result was a white...

Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840

In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction...

Powdered Ink

Pen a note the 18th century way with this Powdered Ink. When mixed with water, this powder produces a rich colored ink for use with quills and other dip pens. Instructions and historical information are provided on the envelopes. A fun way to send a...