William Strachey News Today

In December's Quadrant, Salvatore Babones mooted the theory that the Bard was actually Kit Marlowe, reports of whose death may well have been premature. William Rubinstein begs to differ. While agreeing Shakespeare was not the author of the works that bear his name, his pick, based on what would otherwise be a series of remarkable coincidences and overlapping circles, is Sir Henry Neville

In Virginia in 1621, English colonists and the Powhatan people were trying to live in peace, at least for a while, that was born from the 1614 marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. That marriage, agreed to by Chief Powhatan, led to an alliance between the two cultures and afterward it was noted that native people worked, ate and even lived among the English for several years.

Decades of excavation and research at Jamestown, Americas first fully successful British colony, has shed new light on the beginnings of a nation.

These violent storms have had far-reaching consequences that altered the course of history in surprising ways.

Sometimes words move up in the world. Their meanings change with time, becoming more positive—a process linguists call amelioration.

In this quiz, we will recall 10 maritime accidents that had a great impact, either due to the number of victims, environmental impacts, or due to other tragic historical consequences. This quiz requires you to rank these accidents in chronological order.

What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Corporate greed, dreadful diplomacy, and the wrath of Mother Nature. Also, we don’t know.

DNA that appears to be from descendants of these long-vanished canines has turned up at the Jamestown colonial site in Virginia, where starving settlers may have eaten them, experts at Jamestown and the University of Iowa said this month.

"At a remove of 14 generations I suppose it's all a bit arbitrary, but I choose to take this as the starting point of my own American story."

Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.