With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman ... as the Spanish had done in Mexico and Central America. More important, they ...

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 ...

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 ...