Powhatan (ca. 1550-1618) was chief of a confederation of Algonquian Indians in Virginia at the time of the British colonization of Jamestown. Powhatan was the son of a chief reportedly driven from Florida by the Spaniards. Settling in Virginia, the...

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The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten), or Powhatan Renape[1] (literally, the "Powhatan Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe. It is also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes that they dominated. Also known as Virginia...

The living-history museum that opened in 1957 for the 350th anniversary of America's first permanent English settlement has new galleries and a newly expanded focus that has opened in time for the 400th anniversary. A new 30,000-square-foot exhibit...

Ospreys and turkey vultures soar above cypress trees as kayaks glide on the water, passing by herons scouting for fish and fiddler crabs scurrying along a narrow strip of shoreline. Bill Portlock, senior...

Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.Also, those who attended the abstinence classes reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as...