History has often been compared to a jigsaw puzzle. Both have countless scattered pieces that must be collected and assembled to form a complete picture. On Sept. 24, more than 70 people gathered at ...

Archaeologists are uncovering the truth about what happened at Jamestown and the role Indigenous people played in helping European colonists survive. VPM News Focal Point is available to stream on pbs ...

A wooden bowling ball from the Tew Mansion/Jamestown Club. The Jamestown Club installed a bowling alley in the Tew Mansion in 1907. The artifact from the collection of the Fenton History Center that ...

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

But the reputation of Jamestown as a failure will be a hard one to shake, he adds: “It will take a lot more than a half million artifacts to show that the Virginia Company learned from its mistakes ...

Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne will unite to celebrate the namesake colony’s 411th birthday Saturday with Jamestown Day, a range of programs and hands-on learning opportunities across ...

The flag Doug Larson found in the old garage had just 42 stars. The photograph Doug also found was of a company-sized unit of soldiers, probably from Jamestown, N.D., in the Spanish-American War era.

WILLIAMSBURG — At just 4 years old, Ethan Rose is already something of a budding history enthusiast. Last year, the preschooler from Washington, D.C., had an archaeology phase, and right now, his ...