Featured Book

"Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America"

By Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen Hood

"A must-have volume for all ceramic enthusiasts, Salt-glazed Stoneware in Early America is a long-overdue tribute to the often-neglected but indispensable role that stoneware played in the American context." – Robert Hunter, editor, Ceramics in America

Stoneware was ubiquitous in colonial and early American homes. In the first comprehensive book on the topic, Colonial Williamsburg curators Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen Hood chronicle the traditions of stoneware imported from England and Germany as well as the work of American potters.

Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources and featuring objects from Colonial Williamsburg’s holdings as well as public and private collections, the book provides an invaluable overview of the goods found in early America. It is an essential reference for archaeologists, curators, and collectors.

Hardcover with jacket, 288 pages
9” x 11-1/4”
303 color images
ISBN: 978-1-58465-820-7
$75.00

Available through www.williamsburgmarketplace.com.

"1607 Jamestown and the New World"

1607: Jamestown and the New World, tells the stories of the Indians who lived here before the English arrived, of the settlers who crossed the ocean, and of what happened when Old and New Worlds met.

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Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to Be Both Free and Equal<br>A Plan of Thematic Interpretation

"Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to Be Both Free and Equal
A Plan of Thematic Interpretation"

Becoming Americans explains how diverse peoples, holding different and sometimes conflicting personal ambitions, evolved into a society that values both liberty and equality.

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"M. De Garsault's 1767 Art of The Shoemaker"

D.A. Saguto, master boot- and shoemaker for Colonial Williamsburg, presents an English translation the key text from the period: M. De Garsault’s Art du cordonnier.

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"Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773–1885"

This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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