Mapping the ColonyPoint Comfort is one of the many features indicated on the extremely detailed map of the Virginia region that Captain John Smith created for England in the early 1600s.

In the summer of 1609, a fleet of English ships sails across the Atlantic – bound for the American colony in Jamestown, Virginia. A young girl is among the hundreds of passengers. A girl whose ...

During the great migration from Scotland in the early 1600s the first members of the Vans family from Barnbarroch in ...

AN OLD painting by Neapolitan artist Francesco di Rosa of St Catherine of Alexandria will be put on display before being auctioned off. The painting, from the early 1600s, is to be displayed in ...

Before European settlement in the early 1600s, forests covered an estimated 1.023 billion acres of what is now the United States. The eastern portion of the country was heavily forested ...

In the early 1600s, Europe was going through a “fundamental historical crisis,” as the 20th-century Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci put it, which encompassed a major transformation ...

Sports historian Ged O’Brien pointed to a letter written by one Reverend Samuel Rutherford in the early 1600s stating that “people used to play football” at the ground on the afternoon of ...