2006-10-15 04:00:00 PDT Jamestown, Va.-- If history were fair, I was thinking as I left Jamestown, Va., last month, Pocahontas would be on Mount Rushmore, and so would John Smith. They deserved it.

JAMESTOWN, Va. - A group of modern-day John Smiths rowed away Saturday in a small, open boat from the site of the first permanent English settlement in America, which Smith helped found 400 years ago ...

The historical image of James Fort that is used as a logo for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project and Historic Jamestowne may be leading archaeologists to John Smith’s long-lost town. The hand-drawn ...

The British colonists who settled a bit of land they soon named Jamestown (depicted in a 19th-century engraving) gave England its first enduring encampment in the New World--and, not incidentally, ...

Jamestown has a strong connection with the small hamlet of Willoughby in Lincolnshire, England, where today windows in St. Helena’s Church commemorate the Jamestown voyage of 1606-07, the founding of ...

Some Americans are proud their ancestors came here on the Mayflower, but those whose forebears came on the Susan Constant, the Godspeed or the Discovery may have even more reason for pride. The ...

‘Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607 and the Settlement of America’, HarperCollins, $27.50.It’s one of the most sexually charged episodes in the founding of the country. English explorer ...

Dreams of glory -- "To conquer is to live" -- Voyagers west -- The "first mover" of Jamestown -- A charge of mutiny -- Disease, dissension, and death -- The great American myth -- Conflicting agendas ...

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