This hub of American colonial history features cobblestone streets, botanical gardens, theme parks—and a 300-acre living ...

By 1607, she says, bucklers were considered largely obsolete as tools of war in Europe—which would seem to fit the traditional view that the Jamestown expedition was provisioned with castoff ...

The museum, operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Jamestown Yorktown Foundation, is located a mile from the original ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men -- had sailed into Chesapeake Bay and anchored at the mouth of the James River. There the ...

On this date in history: In 1607, Jamestown, the first permanent English ... In 1973, Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court in the first Battle of the Sexes tennis match. In 1981, Turkish gunman ...