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 ...

JAMES CITY — The retelling of major periods of American history from the vantage point of Native Americans will be the focus Wednesday of a presentation and discussion by author and historian Ned ...

Archaeologists are uncovering the truth about what happened at Jamestown and the role Indigenous people played in helping European colonists survive. VPM News Focal Point is available to stream on pbs ...

The DNA took us in a very unexpected direction, one we never would have gone without it, said Kari Bruwelheide of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, describing a find that is ...

Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by ...

PROVIDENCE ― More than 200 years ago, Jamestown, R.I., had the largest percentage of enslaved people in the state. So what happened to the Black community there? On the Rhode Island Report podcast, ...

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 ...

Yet the evidence has already caused historians to reconsider some longheld assumptions about the men and the circumstances surrounding what YaleUniversity history professor emeritus Edmund S. Morgan ...

The flag Doug Larson found in the old garage had just 42 stars. The photograph Doug also found was of a company-sized unit of soldiers, probably from Jamestown, N.D., in the Spanish-American War era.

The history of Jamestown’s Black community dates all the way back to when the city first began. This history and the stories of the city’s Black community have often been under-documented and ...