Centuries before Instagram, John White’s drawings were the ‘social media’ that allowed ... men who became translators between their tribes and the English, while Roanoke and Chicamacomico had been ...

John White likely did this study of a male Atlantic loggerhead on a stop in the West Indies en route to "Virginia" in 1585. "Their heads, feet, and tails look very ugly, like those of a venomous ...

Here’s how it works. On Aug. 27, 1587, John White, the governor of Roanoke Island colony, an English settlement in what is now North Carolina, sailed to England in hopes of gathering badly ...