They formed a small settlement—the first permanent English colony in North America—and named it Jamestown after King James I of England. Over the next several decades, Jamestown nearly ...

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

In 1666, English colonizers nearly erased the Patawomeck tribe of Virginia, through massacre and dispersal to Caribbean plantations. Though Patawomeck families’ storytelling preserved that story ...

The first Africans in an English colony, their arrival is considered by many historians to be the beginning of a 400-year story filled with tragedy, endurance, survival, and a legacy of resilience ...