Colonial history

<p>The Jamestown founder is one of those early American heroes about whom historians are apt to lose their tempers</p>

<p><span class="deck">Before Plymouth Colony there was Sagadahoc, the short-lived settlement for which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had high hopes</span></p>

<p>Where the written word leaves off, the spade must often take over. A well-known archaeologist relates what the earth has revealed about the first permanent British colony in America</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">They had sent King Charles to the scaffold without remorse. Now they were fugitives in New England with a big price on their heads</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Very. The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we knew.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than two decades before the Revolution broke out, a group of Americans voted on a scheme to unite the colonies. For the rest of his life, Benjamin Franklin thought it could have prevented the war. It didn’t, but it did give us our Constitution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out.</span></p>

<p>The discoverer of the New World was first and foremost a sailor says the historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for his brilliant biography of Columbus.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Thomas Morton liked the lush country, the Indians liked Thomas—and the stern Puritans cared little for either</span> </p>

<p>A soldier-humanist fights a war for peace in North America.</p>

<p>The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.</p>

<p>The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch in 1664 — and alter the trajectory of North American history.</p>

<p>The first votes of the fledgling Virginia Assembly in 1619 marked the inception of the most important political development in American history — the rise of democracy.</p>

<p>By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.</p>