Public Services, Finding Aids and Indexes

Public Services staff have developed finding aids to library and web resources relevant to the academic and professional studies of eighteenth-century British America and the Early American Republic.

Indexes

Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter Index (PDF)

The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter, published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Department of Interpretive Education, contains articles specific to the Historic Area, eighteenth-century social customs, foodways, economy, religious experience, and political life.

Colonial Williamsburg Journal Index

An author/title keyword index, 1978-present, to the colorfully illustrated journal which features the culture, arts and political heritage of Virginia's eighteenth-century colonial capital. Photocopies of articles can be requested through interlibrary loan. (About this Database)

Country Life Index

More than 25 years (1978-January 2007) of this venerable British weekly have been indexed for eighteenth-century architecture and decorative arts topics that would be of particular interest to the curators and historians of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (About this Database)

Diderot Index

An index to the illustrations in three twentieth-century editions of Denis Diderot's l'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers was undertaken in the 1980's by Rachel Marks, a volunteer in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library.

Enslaving Virginia Resource Book Index (PDF)

An index to the "Becoming Americans" interpreter training manual for the 1999 unit on slavery in Virginia. [Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Enslaving Virginia : becoming Americans : our struggle to be both free and equal, 1999. Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1998.]

Trades Index (About this Database)

Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs (1983-1999) of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century drawings and paintings are indexed for objects of interest to trades-people of Colonial Williamsburg.

Webographies

Buying Respectability

Bibliographic and textual information about eighteenth-century consumer expectations and practices that transformed life styles and living standards and revolutionized commerce and technology.

Freeing Religion

English, African, and Native American religions converged in Virginia. The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment contributed to a ferment of doctrine, opinion, and practice that led to the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786.

Historic Area

Bibliographic and textual information about eighteenth-century Williamsburg available on the Internet.

Revolution

Bibliographic and textual information from the period or about the American Revolution, especially in Virginia available on the Internet.

Settlement of British America

Bibliographic and textual information from the period or about the settlement of British America, especially Virginia available on the Internet

Slavery

Bibliographic and textual information from the period or about slavery in British America, especially Virginia available on the Internet

Bibliographies

Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (PDF)

Selected resources to consult when looking for eighteenth-century people in James City and York Counties, as well as the city of Williamsburg.

Seventeenth-Century Virginia (PDF)

Books, microfilm and Internet sites to consult when looking for information about seventeenth-century Virginians.

Revolutionary War Virginians (PDF)

Books, microfilm and Internet sites to consult when looking for information about Revolutionary War Virginians.

Other

School Projects

A list of resources helpful for school projects on topics in early American history. These include some of library's finding aids and links to websites outside the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.