Tag: Jamestown

• Legendary People: Pocahontas, The Real History

  

  In 1995 Disney released the film Pocahontas which earnt $346 million at the box office and received two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. In the subsequent years, many began to learn that Pocahontas was based on a real person who was born 400 years before the film’s release – and that her…

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  June 5, 2020

  Legendary People, Women’s History

  British Empire, British History, Colonial America, Early Modern, Early Modern England, Early Modern History, history, Jamestown, Native American, Native American History, Pocahontas, Women’s History

• Feeble or Fierce? Colonial Women of North America

  

  You may or may not be aware of the recent article in The Guardian reviewing the new historical television drama, Jamestown. This article has garnered a lot of criticism in the historical world, and for good reason. If you don’t want to read the article, then the main summary points are this: Now, after I…

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  May 8, 2017

  Women’s History

  American History, Colonial America, Early Modern, Early Modern History, English History, history, Jamestown, Medieval History, Seventeenth Century History, Women’s History