For almost a century, European settlers to the Eastern United States used the amazingly accurate maps that British explorer Capt. John Smith made of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Smith ...

What does a "water trail" look like? For the most part, it seems, a whole lot of nothing. But that's the thinking behind plans for a national historical trail that would follow the early-1600s ...

This book presents an imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Captain John Smith's most important writings. The goal is to make Smith accessible to scholars, students, and general readers ...

Really, my outfit cried out for some sort of firearm -- a blunderbuss or flintlock or something. Capt. John Smith was a soldier after all, and since I was dressed as Smith, it would have been ...

I’m writing with congratulations to 3P and a gentle reminder to all that Maryland history did not begin with the voyage of Capt. John Smith (“Retracing John Smith’s historic sail 415 years later,” Aug ...

EASTON — In celebration of next year’s 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., the Academy Art Museum and The Johns Hopkins University Press will host a book launch party for Susan ...

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THE life of Captain John Smith reads like a chapter from The Cloister and the Hearth. It abounds in incidents such as we call improbable in novels, although precedents enough for every one of them may ...