Retired Rear Admiral Samuel J. Cox is producing a series of videos highlighting key locations in America’s early story, and ...

WASHINGTON Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by ...

The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation has put together a full lineup of exhibits, talks and programs to recognize Black History Month. The programs encourage visitors to explore the foundation’s two ...

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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 ...

JAMESTOWN — A new special exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement museum bridges histories and provides a new insight into the lives of early American colonists. “Following the Dragon” features 31 of ...

Detail of cut marks found on the girl’s jaw, or lower mandible in a stereo-microscopic photo. Smithsonian Institution / Don Hurlbert The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) – The Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg has announced that the Halloween-themed event “Family Frights” will return this Oct. 24 and 25. The event sees the settlement ...

When the French and Indian War began in 1764, English soldiers and American colonists were brought together on a large scale for the first time. During the 157 preceding years, the residents of the ...