Pocahontas Island in Petersburg, Virginia, was one of the earliest free Black settlements and an Underground Railroad stop.

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today from ...

The corpulent visage of Henry VIII peers at me across the centuries from the pages of Baziliwlogia: A Booke of Kings. As I leaf through the 1618 edition, another engraved portrait jumps out at me — a ...

POCAHONTAS -- Pat Johnson, a longtime figure in Randolph County, was "scared to death" when she organized the first local march to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in 2004. "There were 10 people who came ...

The tug of war over Pocahontas — the Indian chief's daughter who was born on the James River and died on the Thames River — has been going on for more than 400 years. Since the first years of the ...

POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an ...

PETERSBURG, Va. — Richard Stewart always said the spirits of the past chose him to keep their tales alive. But he didn’t know how long he could do it. For at least 20 years, Stewart collected ...