Many Americans associate gift-giving, snow, lights and mistletoe at Christmas. Mention of the holiday wouldn’t conjure up images of Capt. John Smith of James Fort. Yet, it was Smith, the extraordinary ...

In 1607, a group of English settlers arrived at Jamestown Island. Captain John Smith played a key role in the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. James Fort ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This life group exhibit has Captain ...

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 ...

Drew McMullen, president of the Sultana Project in Chestertown, Md., will speak about the re-creation of Capt. John Smith's voyage on the Chesapeake Bay in a 28-foot shallop. At 6 p.m., two authors ...

More than 400 years ago, the English colonist and explorer John Smith wrote in his journal that there were Indigenous villages along a major river in what is now Virginia. But the reported sites of ...