From late summer, 1613 through March, 1614, Pocahontas was under the keeping of Sir Thomas Dale. He made a choice to retain her with the failure of exchange negotiations with Powhatan. So at that ...

As the nation turns to elections in 2020, one person has emerged as the front-runner in the imagination of the electorate, if not in reality. I'm speaking, of course, about Pocahontas. Over 400 years ...

In the spring of 1616, John and Rebecca Rolfe (better known to the world today as Pocahontas) left Virginia for England — a voyage from which she would never return. Whether you first learned of ...

Accompanied by her friends Meeko, Flit and Percy, Pocahontas sets sail for England as an ambassador for peace. At first confused by the strange fashions and bizarre customs of London, Pocahontas is ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. Four hundred years ago, Pocahontas arrived in England with her husband John Rolfe. Bold, ...

Finding out his family history. Edward Norton appeared on the season 9 premiere of Finding Your Roots, where he learned that historical figure Pocahontas is actually his 12th great-grandmother.

This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life. During her stay in England, Dutch engraver Simon van de Passe captured her likeness and recorded that she, like the artist ...