Shortly after 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, Captain Edward John Smith made his way to the deck of the Titanic after feeling a strange vibration. He asked a crew member what the ship had struck and ...

The first mention of coffee in America was by Captain John Smith who had seen coffee cultivation in Turkey and introduced the ...

While the movie showed him to be brave, news spread that he shot himself; however, the book settles the matter as he froze to ...

“The wind and waters so much increased,” Capt, John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) wrote in his memoirs, “with thunder, lightning, and rain that our mast and sail blew overboard and such mighty ...

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With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...

While Titanic Captain Edward John Smith’s official cause of death remains one of history’s enduring mysteries, author Dan E. Parkes has thrown cold water on theories that he took his own life ...