The first permanent English colony, planted inside Powhatan's Tsenacommacah in 1607.
A founding U.S. state; by 1800 settled from tidewater to the Appalachian plateau, with Kentucky split off in 1792.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Virginia — the shape you scrub through changes in 1607 · 1646 · 1660 · 1700 · 1730 · 1745.
The classic interpretive history of how Virginia's tobacco economy and the rise of slavery shaped the colony from Jamestown through the 18th century.
A leading scholar's authoritative reassessment of the 1607 founding, the Virginia Company, and English-Powhatan encounters.
A readable, well-sourced narrative of the early colony and the Powhatan world it intruded upon, by a director of historical research at Jamestown.
The foremost ethnohistorian of the Powhatan tells the contact story from the Native side, essential for the Tsenacommacah context.
The standard social and economic history of tidewater and piedmont Virginia across the colony's mature 18th-century expansion.
The founding primary source for Jamestown Virginia — Smith's own account of the 1607 settlement, the Virginia Company years, and relations with the Powhatan. Essential primary source to complement the five secondary works already present.
The best-selling American novel of 1900, a swashbuckling romance set in 1621-22 Jamestown that was for decades the most famous work of colonial-Virginia historical fiction.