With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ignored in colonial lore in favor of Massachusetts’ Plymouth Colony. And what has survived is not flattering, especially when compared with the image of ...

[Editor's Note: The Indian people the Jamestown colonists encountered were known by the same name as their chief, Powhatan.] Q: According to John Smith's account of the famous event—when ...