Jamestown Selected Bibliography

 

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Barbour, Philip AL. ed. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631). Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

 ... The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter, 1606-1609. 2 voles. Cambridge: University Press, 1969. Out of Print. Check your local library for a copy.

 ... Pocahontas and Her World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Out of Print. Check your local library for a copy.

 ...The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Out of Print. Check your local library for a copy.

*Billings, Warren M. Jamestown and the Founding of the Nation. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1991.

* ... The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

*Cotter, John AL. Archeological Excavations at Jamestown. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957.

Craven, Wesley Frank. The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. No. 5. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1957. Out of Print - Check your local library for a copy.

*Egloff, Keith and Woodward, Deborah. First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 1992.

*Haile, Edward Wright. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony - The First Decade 1607-1617. Champlain, Virginia: RoundHouse, 1998.

*Hatch, Charles E. Jr. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1957.

*Haskett, James N. Colonial National Historical Park: The Story Behind the Scenery. Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, 1990.

Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission. The 350th Anniversary of Jamestown 1607-1957. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958.

*Kelso, William M. Jamestown Rediscovery II:. Jamestown: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1996.

* ... Jamestown Rediscovery 1994-2004:Jamestown: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 2004.

*Kupperman, Karen O. ed. Captain John Smith: A Select Edition Of His Writings. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Lindgren, James M. Preserving the Old Dominion: Historic Preservation and Virginia Traditionalism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Mapp, Alf J. Jr. The Virginia Experiment: The Old Dominion's Role in the Making of America 1607-1781. iUniverse: 4th Edition, 2006.

*McIntosh, Jane. The Practical Archaeologist: How we know what we know about the part. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1986.

*Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975.

*Noel Hume, Ivor. Martin's Hundred. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

* ... The Virginia Adventure Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

*Rasmussen, William M.S. and Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994.

*Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

* ...Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

* ... Powhatan Foreign Relations 1500-1722. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954. Out of Print. Check your local library for a copy.


Recommended Children's Books

*Bulla, Clyde Robert. A Lion To Guard Us. New York: Harper Trophy, 1981.

* ... Pocahontas and the Strangers. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1971.

Fishwick, Marshall W. Jamestown: First English Colony. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1965. Out of Print. Check your local library for a copy.

*Fritz, Jean. The Double Life of Pocahontas. New York: Puffin Books, 1987.

*"Jamestown." Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People. Vol. 15, April 1994. New Hampshire: Cobblestone Publishing Company, 1994.

 

Revised 04/11/99
by Kirk D. Kehrberg

 

Did You Know?

Atlantic Sturgeon scutes recovered at James Fort.

Sturgeons have five rows of bony plates, called scutes, covering the head and body.  These scutes are often found in the excavation of James Fort; the abundance of scutes in the archeological record supports the historical record.