JAMESTOWN – Explore the beginning of representative democracy, the fate of Nathaniel Bacon’s failed rebellion, the lasting ...

History has often been compared to a jigsaw puzzle. Both have countless scattered pieces that must be collected and assembled to form a complete picture. On Sept. 24, more than 70 people gathered at ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

But the reputation of Jamestown as a failure will be a hard one to shake, he adds: “It will take a lot more than a half million artifacts to show that the Virginia Company learned from its mistakes ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

JAMESTOWN — Every October, Virginia comes alive with Archaeology Month, and Jamestown Rediscovery is digging into the past like never before. This coming Saturday, visitors can explore history ...

It is little wonder that history has not smiled on the colonists of Jamestown. Though recognized as the first permanent English settlement in North America and the setting for the charming (if ...