John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ignored in colonial lore in favor of Massachusetts’ Plymouth Colony. And what has survived is not flattering, especially when compared with the image of ...

With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

Archaeological crews from the Charleston Museum, alongside students from the College of Charleston, were busy excavating the ...

John Smith, whose veracity of detail and recollection ... Eventually, the sponsors of the Jamestown Colony saw marketing possibilities in this regal, converted, English-speaking princess.

Why is Jamestown, Virginia, listed on the National Trust’s list of the most endangered historic places United States?

This small Virginia town is a perfect destination for seafood lovers who like to mix a little shopping and history in with ...

Chip Clark / NMNH, SI This skeleton of a 14-to-15-year-old male may have been the first fatality at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. Captain John Smith wrote that two weeks after colonists ...