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