A Brief Overview of Life in 18th-C. North America
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Architecture and engineering Colonial Williamsburg. "Raising a Drying Shed." YouTube. Posted January 17, 2023. Colonial Williamsburg. "Tour the Governor’s Palace with Hannah." YouTube. Posted April 24, 2024. Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia. "Virtual Tour: 1700s German Farm." YouTube. Posted April 20, 2020. Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia. "Virtual Tour: 1700s Irish Farm." YouTube. Posted April 29, 2020. JYF Museums. "JYF Cribs | A Revolutionary Era Middling Farm House Tour." YouTube. Posted May 29, 2021. JYF Museums. "JYF Cribs | Layout of Continental Army Encampments." YouTube. Posted October 16, 2021.
Economy and trade Bill of Rights Institute. "Mercantilism & The Colonial American Economy." YouTube. Posted September 1, 2020. NBC News Learn. "The Stamp Act." YouTube. Posted May 1, 2020. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "Philadelphia's Non-Violent Resistance to the 1773 Tea Tax." YouTube. Posted December 16, 2023. Townsend, Jon. "Do You Know the Difference? Shilling, Sixpence, Halfpenny?" YouTube. Posted July 27, 2021. Townsend, Jon. "Trading With Native Americans." YouTube. Posted June 28, 2021.
Food and drink Townsend, Jon. "Baked Beans - 18th Century Cooking." YouTube. Posted January 30, 2012. Townsend, Jon. "Cornbread: 18th Century Breads, Part 3. S2E14." YouTube. Posted May 29, 2012. Townsend, Jon. "Soup, Stew and Hash - 18th Century Soldier Cooking." YouTube. Posted November 28, 2011. Townsend, Jon. "We Still Eat This All The Time - Scallop Potatoes." YouTube. Posted June 23, 2024.
Games and entertainment Colonial Williamsburg. "18th-Century Acting." YouTube. Posted September 2, 2015. Colonial Williamsburg. "African Drums." YouTube. Posted February 22, 2016. Colonial Williamsburg. "'German Toys in America' at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg." YouTube. Posted November 7, 2016. FYS Museums. "Children's Toys in the 18th-Century." YouTube. Posted December 30, 2021. Townsend, Jon. "Bowling Then VS Now." YouTube. Posted November 12, 2023.
Health and medicine Colonial Williamsburg. "Exploring Colonial Healthcare: The Apothecary." YouTube. Posted May 25, 2023. George Washington's Mount Vernon. "Dentistry in the 18th Century." YouTube. Posted August 2, 2019. JYF Museums. "Making Soap on a Revolution-era Farm." YouTube. Posted January 4, 2023. Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. "The Instruments Used to Bleed Patients." YouTube. Posted April 22, 2020. Townsend, Jon. "Did They Have Germs Back Then? - Spanish Military Hospital 1784." YouTube. Posted April 5, 2021.
Painting and sculpture Colonial Williamsburg. "Making a Turned Table Leg." YouTube. Posted November 1, 2022. Colonial Williamsburg. "The Geddy Foundry." YouTube. Posted June 20, 2023. Jaffee, David. "Art and Identity in the British North American Colonies, 1700–1776." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Liebster, Amy. "Eagles After the American Revolution." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. Travel and transportation Colonial Williamsburg. "Black Coachmen & Horsemen of the 18th Century." YouTube. Posted February 14, 2023. Townsend, Jon. "From Tree To Canoe: Full Length Anniversary Edition - Dugout Canoe Build." YouTube. October 1, 2022.
Warfare American Battlefield Trust. "The Revolutionary War: Animated Battle Map." YouTube. Posted June 27, 2019. NBC News Learn. "The French and Indian War." YouTube. Posted May 1, 2020. Townsend, Jon. "The Forgotten Soldiers of the Revolutionary War." YouTube. Posted January 25, 2018.
