I grew up in the 1970s and ’80s. My conception of life in the adult world was formed to a great extent by television and movies. As a teenager I didn’t have much in the way of insight ...

That dig exposed what is widely considered the most significant find from colonial America. Some surprises were cahow bones, tropical fish skeletons, sea turtle shells and large pig bones.

That little-remembered century—1600 to 1700—that began with the founding (and foundering) of the first permanent English settlement in America, the one called Jamestown, whose endemic perils ...