The ledgers provided a surprising discovery about an enslaved man who was hired out to the Alexandria store and later emancipated.

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we thought we’d take a look at all things Irish in the Colchester store ledger, 1760/1761.

Help History Revealed transcribe 18th-century store and personal ledgers from Alexandria, Virginia.

More and more communities today are applying a plastic bag tax on the use of plastic bags at stores, whether as a surcharge applied to...