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

Bad history is common, especially in a world that favors crowd sourcing over the views of experts . Even experts, however, are not infallib...

Recently, I became cognizant that every post on Patriots and Peoples the past three years has been about guns in one way or another. There ...

The problem of guns and violence in American society is a problem of overblown rhetoric compounded by willed ignorance. The National Rifle ...

American history runs over with irony and contradictions. The gap between common beliefs and the evidence is especially true of the American...

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

The Second Amendment by Michael Waldman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disappointing On the one hand, The Second Amendment: A Biography offe...

There are books that I start over and over again, always returning them to the shelf before getting far. There are many reasons for this beh...

Robert F. Williams, Labor Organizer? Small things catch me. While reading a history book, I have a tendency to get pulled away on a tangen...

Another school shooting today raises anew why these tragedies occur with growing frequency in the United States. Richard Slotkin spent his c...

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...

Colonial Firearms Assertions of European technological superiority appeal to our common sense. We know that guns are better than bows and ...