This article provides an overview and basic information about the original 13 colonies established by European settlers in ...

The Jamestown settlement in Virginia, which officially was started on May 14, 1607, was one of the first European colonies to last in North America, and was historically significant for hosting the ...

Virginia (WHTM) — May 13 marks the anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in what would eventually become the United States of America. It wasn’t very ...

Jamestown, Virginia — More than 400 years after the first European settlers arrived, Jamestown, Virginia, is struggling to survive the ravages of climate change. "We are concerned that if we don't ...

A study published in Science Advances about centuries-old horse and donkey bones, unearthed in Jamestown, Virginia, is ...

In 2006, archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia, uncovered a 17th-century groundwater well at James Fort, the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. Now, as Andrew Harris reports ...

Experts have provided the grisly goods to back up 17th-century accounts of cannibalism during the Jamestown colony's "starving time" — including a skull that shows signs of being chopped at and pried ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.