Showcases traditions, crafts, recipes, and customs from throughout three hundred years of American Christmas celebrations, with photographs and descriptions of holiday festivities in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
Examines the battle of Fredericksburg, considered General Robert E. Lee's most one-sided victory of the Civil War, and draws from a variety of sources, including a slave diary, to discuss what the war meant to non-combatants. Features reenactment photographs.
Re-enactment photographs and explanatory text bring colonial-era Williamsburg, Virginia, to life, showing how the war for independence affected the lives of ordinary citizens such as women, blacksmiths, and enslaved people.