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...

Here’s an interesting #ThrowBackThursday for Alexandria’s merchant and shipping industry in the 18th century. Looking at Jenifer &...

Have you heard the news? History Revealed co-founder, Molly Kerr, received an Omohundro Digital Collections Fellowship to expand our...

In honor of this year's #InternationalWomensDay, we are pleased to announce the addition of 39 women found within the Colchester ledger...

Items described as "blue" in the Colchester 1760/1761 store ledger were not limited to fabrics...What is just as interesting were the dyes

We are excited to announce the publication of our Glassford & Henderson Index of Account Holders for the Alexandria and Colchester stores.

Anyone thinking about baby names yet? We thought we would suggest some of our favorites.

Miracle cures for every ailment have existed for millennia. Sometimes the cures work, sometimes they are no more than snake oil.

For this year's #InternationalWomensDay, we are pleaseed to announce the addition of 14 more femme sole women added to our list.

In today's post, we need help figuring out where some of the places mentioned in the Jenifer & Hooe ledger were in the 18th century.

Most textbooks dismiss women's participation in the colonial society of Virginia because they seemed to exist solely in the shadow ...

Most of the time, customers visited the stores in Alexandria or Colchester, Virginia, on a monthly or quarterly basis to pick up needed...

With the catastrophe ravaging Paris with the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, we wanted to take a moment to appreciate France's...

In this week's #TranscriptionTuesday, we need help identifying a type of thimble. Much of the material sold at the Glassford stores in...

Sometimes the ledgers provide a little levity, as found in today's #TranscriptionTuesday post. When the Colchester store first opened,...

In our quest to learn more about the communities of Colchester and Alexandria, we want to learn more about the individual account holders....

On #InternationalWomensDay, we honor the 105 femme sole women (single/widowed and had accounts in their own names) at the Glassford...