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WILLIAMSBURG — Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists have uncovered evidence indicating the remains of a Revolutionary War barracks on Foundation property…

I hated history when I was in high school. We had to memorize stupid, meaningless dates. Nothing could have been more boring. I didn’t learn a thing. Now, more than half a century later, I like some dates. Here’s a game I just played on Zoom with my students. What year did the American Revolution begin, and when did it end? My students agreed that it probably began in 1765, the year of the Stamp Act, when Parliament imposed on the American colonists, without their consent, a tax on va...