In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at the time.

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret. Founded in AD 1607, ...

When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...

One of my family’s early road trips after immigrating to the U.S. was to Jamestown and Williamsburg, where we learned about ...

The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation encourages visitors to celebrate the season with Jamestown Settlement and the American ...

Remember those who endured incredible hardships to give us the institutions and ideals that helped create this country — and ...

American composer William Perry is also a TV and film producer, so it's no wonder that his music has a cinematic quality to ...

T he English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future of European colonization in North America. The colonists suffered many challenges, particularly in their early years, and many ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

The new origin story of the grave marker highlights Jamestown’s position in global transatlantic trade and sheds light on the early colonists’ burial procedures, experts said. A tale of an ...