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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including the following:

Plants of Colonial WilliamsburgPLANTS OF COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG

This guide to the plants in Colonial Williamsburg's gardens describes and discusses two hundred flowers, trees, herbs, and shrubs. The historical background of each plant links it with the colonial period. Brief biographies of early plantsmen explain the roles they played in the history of horticulture. Softbound. $12.95. To order, click here.



Williamsburg Art of CookeryWILLIAMSBURG ART OF COOKERY

In 1938, Helen Bullock compiled an amazing collection of favorite "receipts" or recipes known to have been used in Virginia households in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today's cook can offer the time-tested dishes that pleased our ancestors. Hardbound, 276 pages, 5 line drawings. Now in its 22nd printing! $14.95. To order, click here.



The Servants DirectoryTHE SERVANTS DIRECTORY

A delightful reprint of H. Glass's 1762 bestseller "Wherein the Duties of the Chamber-maid, Nursery-maid, House-maid, Laundry-maid, Scullion or Under-Cook are fully and distinctly Explained. To which is added Cookery and Pickling Sufficient to Qualify a Person to act as THOROUGH SERVANT In any Family." Letterpress printed and softbound in the best 18th-century manner. $5.95. To order, click here.