MMT and chartalism claims that money is a creature of the state and is valued because of state action. The fact that tobacco ...

As the Virginia colony grew, Jamestown developed into a thriving port town. Thousands of colonists either passed through to start tobacco plantations farther inland, or settled in Jamestown ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who's who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of ...

Archaeologists working at the settlement site have turned ... that are believed to date to the late 1600s, when Jamestown was prospering as a tobacco and trade center. “Were there gentlemen ...

In spring 1607, a group of 104 English men and boys landed on the banks of a large river in present-day Virginia and built a fort on hunting land that belonged to the Powhatan Chiefdom. They ...

An immediate influx of women was needed to save the floundering colony ... to Virginia and is why the Jamestown brides are sometimes referred to as “tobacco wives.” It is also why the women ...

Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown — for a five-day immersion into history with Road Scholar. Each site brought surprises ...

According to a letter by tobacco planter John Rolfe (widower of Pocahontas), in late August a ship (the White Lion) landed in the 12-year-old Jamestown settlement. It “brought not anything but ...

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