"The story of America begins here. In Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, you can see hundreds of restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings from the Colonial and Revolutionary eras. You can meet the men and women-black, white, and Native American, enslaved and free-who built a new nation. And you can experience the enduring relevance of America's founding documents and principles. This practical guide features: Historic sites,...

"An earlier version of this book, published in 1988, was titled Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital. It explored how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin, the rector of Williamsburg's historic Bruton Parish Church, persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to invest millions of dollars in the restoration of the eighteenth-century capital. Yet the story of the restoration, as told in the first edition of this book, was not the...