JAMESTOWN, Va. – On a recent afternoon, tour guide Justin Bates pointed to the spot where historic Jamestown’s legislature first convened in July 1619. He then gestured toward another nearby spot ...

No one knows much about Angelo, an African woman sold into slavery in Hampton in 1619 and taken to Jamestown. Her English first name — an incorrect masculine spelling of “Angela” — appears only in the ...

Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...

"The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," published in late 2021, is an anthology of readings to supplement articles published earlier in the New York Times to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the ...

Crisp winter air brushed the James River on Monday morning as a crowd of about 15 or so visitors sat near the Tercentennial Monument on Jamestown Island. The group focused their attention on historian ...