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May 29, 2024
Early English settlers in Jamestown ate indigenous dogs to survive the Starving Time, revealing complex interactions with Native American communities.
May 27, 2024
English settlers had an unusual and disgusting diet during the Starving Time period in the 17th Century. The colonists settled in Jamestown, Virginia where 90 percent died one winter.
May 22, 2024
Dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17th century, according to new research in American Antiquity.
May 22, 2024
Researchers untangle the complex relationship between colonial and Indigenous dogs during initial English settlement.
September 27, 2023
In the dreadful winter of 1609, in what was known as the Starving Time in Jamestown, Virginia, a teenage servant girl slips through the wall of the fort built by
September 23, 2023
The tension between fear of the wilderness and love for its beauty is a strong thread in this story of a runaway girl.
September 16, 2023
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. THE VASTER WILDS is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how --- ...
September 13, 2023
The author of The Vaster Wilds discusses captivity narratives, historical fiction, and how to avoid writing "tourism in time."
September 12, 2023
It’s part Hatchet, part existentialism, part cannibalism.
September 12, 2023
It’s part Hatchet, part existentialism, part cannibalism.