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 ...

Syttende Mai Celebration: Come celebrate Norwegian Independence Day, also known as Syttende Mai, at the Lake Park Historical ...

The settlement was established in 1612, a mere five years after the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia ... explained Olivia Adderley, a native Bermudian who recently spent time in ...

To understand how unusual all that was, we must go back beyond the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the bloody religious ... and demands succor from men of apostolic zeal; We refer to the Indians and ...

JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Rediscovery will mark Jamestown Day, a commemoration of the establishment of James Fort more than 400 ...

Wives for the settlers at Jamestown by William Ludwell Sheppard, 1876. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

Acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens spent years perfecting a flawless recipe for the iconic Southern food. Now, a new ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

Many of the people of this country can trace their ancestry back to a variety of different places and cultures. People have been coming to these shores, seeking liberty and ...

River cruises are popular around the world, but for two Virginia men they are also a chance to honor a forgotten part of the ...

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost ...