In the story recorded in history, fiction and film, Pocahontas plays a supporting role to John Smith, the English explorer and colonist she is credited with saving from death at her father's hand. In ...

Written in the vigorously cryptic prose usually reserved for ransom notes, William T. Vollmann's first novel "You Bright and Risen Angels" was an explosive 600-page textbook tracing the technological ...

The Werowocomoco Research Project is a collaborative effort by archeologists, historians, and Virginia Indian communities to research a site that was once a major settlement of the Powhatan chiefdom.

As the war clubs “hung heavily overhead,” Powhatan considered his favorite daughter’s request. Finally, he commanded his warriors to halt the execution. Pocahontas had given Smith a very precious ...