An Overview of Life in 18th-Century North America

    I would like credit for limiting myself to *only* six cooking videos by Townsends.  It was very difficult and I deserve a sticker.  Also, for some reason the virtual tour of the Irish farm needs to be watched at 1.25x normal speed; all the others seem fine.

General information
    Fairfax Network - Fairfax County Public Schools. "Life of a Colonial Slave." YouTube. Posted September 19, 2014.
    Smarthistory. "The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians." YouTube. Posted February 9, 2020.
    Townsend, Jon. "Lighting Then VS Now: Fire Before Electricity." YouTube. Posted January 14, 2024.
    Townsend, Jon. "Winters in Colonial America." YouTube. Posted December 7, 2017.

Architecture and engineering
    Colonial Williamsburg. "18th-Century Brickmaking." YouTube. Posted January 28, 2026.
    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.
    Townsend, Jon. "How to Build an Earthen Oven." YouTube. Posted December 5, 2011.
    Townsend, Jon. "Keeping Livestock on the Frontier - Wattle Fence Build." YouTube. Posted July 25, 2022.
    Townsend, Jon. "Roofing in the Wilderness - Thatch - Townsends Wilderness Homestead." YouTube. Posted August 8, 2022.

Economy and trade
    Bill of Rights Institute. "Mercantilism & The Colonial American Economy." YouTube. Posted September 1, 2020.
    Hudson's Bay. "HBC Point Blankets - Oral History with Kathleen Epp." YouTube. Posted October 4, 2022.
    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.
    Smarthistory. "Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit." YouTube. Posted January 13, 2018.
    Townsend, Jon. "Do You Know the Difference? Shilling, Sixpence, Halfpenny?" YouTube. Posted July 27, 2021.
    Townsend, Jon. "Lives of The Downtrodden in Early America." YouTube. Posted September 12, 2018.
    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. "Tasty 220 Year Old Sweet Potato Pudding - 18th Century Cooking." YouTube. Posted November 21, 2022.
    Townsend, Jon. "We Still Eat This All The Time - Scallop Potatoes." YouTube. Posted June 23, 2024.
    Townsend, Jon. "What is a Posset? Working Class Scraps Turned Fancy Food - 1750 Harvest Posset." YouTube. Posted December 5, 2022.

Games and entertainment
    Colonial Williamsburg. "18th-Century Acting." YouTube. Posted September 2, 2015.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "African Drums." YouTube. Posted February 22, 2016.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums." YouTube. Posted December 19, 2023.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "'German Toys in America' at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg." YouTube. Posted November 7, 2016.
    Dobney, Jayson Kerr. "Military Music in American and European Traditions." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
    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. "A BLOODY History Of Revolutionary War Medicine." YouTube. April 19, 2019.
    George Washington's Mount Vernon. "Dentistry in the 18th Century." YouTube. Posted August 2, 2019.
    JYF Museums. "Colonial Medicine on an 18th-Century Farm." YouTube. Posted September 22, 2022.
    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.
    —. "'This Melancholy Call': Washington and Cancer." George Washington's Mount Vernon. No date.

Painting and sculpture
    Avery, Kevin J. "Late Eighteenth-Century American Drawings." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "Making a Turned Table Leg." YouTube. Posted November 1, 2022.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "Silversmith." YouTube. Posted February 20, 2024.
    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.
    Jaffee, David. "Art and Society of the New Republic, 1776–1800." 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.

Religion and folklore
    French Church du Saint-Esprit. "Unraveling History: The Huguenots' Journey to New England." YouTube. Posted April 18, 2024.
    NBC News Learn. "The Great Awakening." YouTube. Posted May 1, 2020.
    Smarthistory. "African Burial Ground, New York City." YouTube. Posted August 1, 2020.

Travel and transportation
    Colonial Williamsburg. "Black Coachmen & Horsemen of the 18th Century." YouTube. Posted February 14, 2023.
    Colonial Williamsburg. "Transporting Tobacco." YouTube. Posted October 19, 2022.
    Townsend, Jon. "From Tree To Canoe: Full Length Anniversary Edition - Dugout Canoe Build." YouTube. October 1, 2022.
    Townsend, Jon. "Who Were The Longhunters?" YouTube. March 27, 2019.

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.
    Museum of the American Revolution. "Powderhorns from the American Revolution." YouTube. July 24, 2012.
    Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "Bushy Run Battlefield - Tactics of War in the Battle of Bushy Run." YouTube. Posted January 23, 2023.
    Townsend, Jon. "The Forgotten Soldiers of the Revolutionary War." YouTube. Posted January 25, 2018.

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