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.

WILLIAMSBURG — Make ready to witness centuries of military history — all in one weekend — March 15 and 16 at Jamestown Settlement.

The two-day event begins Saturday and features demonstrations, encampments, music and hundreds of reenactors to show how military uniforms, weapons and tactics evolved through the centuries.

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

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 ...

Rowland was inspired to create American Girl while traveling in the area. Horrocks added Rowland had been excited by a place ...

The 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 ...

There the colonists established their new settlement. Almost eight hundred more settlers arrived over the next three years. To say that life wasn't easy at the settlement would be a gross ...

Explore the stories of America’s founding at Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown during ...

One large oak tree went straight through Cabin 1 destroying bunk beds, walls, the roof, and decades of memories.

A recreation of one of the first ships to bring settlers to Virginia is heading up north for a two-year preservation project. https://www.wavy.com/news/recreation-of ...

where a ceremony honoring the anniversary was held at Jamestown Settlement. Homer Lanier, the settlement’s visitor experience director, said he has been crossing the river on the ferry for ...