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Ten years before colonial Jamestown, Roanoke Island was the brief home for over 100 people. How and why they disappeared has puzzled historians.

Jamestown, Virginia: Founded in 1607, was the first permanent English colony established in America. It experienced starvation, rebellion, and Indian attacks.

Europeans at Jamestown misunderstand meaning of Native American languages. Pocahontas only a nickname. Caddos name Texas.

Less than half of the Mayflower's 1620 passengers were still alive when the first harvest was brought in, but there was much to give thanks for.

Roots of the American Civil War begin in 1619 when some Jamestown, Virginia residents buy twenty Africans.

By 1614, the Indians, having had enough of land-grabbing whites, start a war. Pocahontas marries Kocoum, is kidnapped, marries Rolfe and sails for England.

The battleground of 1781 remains accessible but Green Spring Plantation is not open to the public.

The work of this colonial printer illustrates the development of printing as a means to inform the public at a time before freedom of the press was taken for granted.

Pocahontas: Daughter of Powhatan, Saves John Smith after arrival at Jamestown, becomes peacemaker.

Jamestown is prospering and growing but the men need women. That problem is soon solved. Then the Indians attack.

Powhatan's first proven contact with whites came in 1607, when Jamestown was established a few miles from Powhatan's capital of Werowocomoco. He attempted to control the

Industrial hemp has had many effective uses over the centuries. These include paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, construction, incense, food, and fuel.

The people of Jamestown are ready to call it quits when, in 1610, Lord Thomas West De la Warr arrives in Virginia to be governor. John Rolfe marries Pocahontas and introd

Squanto, along with other Indians, is captured by sea captain Thomas Hunt. Hunt transports them to Spain where he begins selling his captives into slavery.

Is Malick's film a fresh look at ancient history, or a flat film of home movie quality?

The first British settlement in North America was at Georgetown, Virginia, in 1607. Tracing your English, Welsh, Irish or Scottish ancestry was never more popular