Smith threatens Opechancanough The first Anglo-Powhatan war (1609-1614) was a brutal affair. Most British immigrants to the Jamestown Colony...

While rereading A True Relation (1608) by John Smith, a statement about most guns being packed away caught my eye. I noticed the statement ...

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Smith and Pocahontas In 1624 Captain John Smith published an account that he was rescued by Pocahontas from a death planned by her father,...

In the summer I eat fewer bananas and catch more fish. I cut down on fruit that seems to make me more attractive to the mosquitoes that inha...

Ecological Indians In the chapter “Eden” in his meticulously documented The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (1999), Shepard Krech III t...

The colonists at Jamestown set up a test to compare their weapons to those of the Indians. Less than a month after the colonists arrived in ...

Jamestown 1607-1610 The Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project sheds light on aspects of the lives of the Jamestown colonists. Par...