When I was in third grade, I recall being introduced to Pocahontas, John Smith and their love story ... I especially enjoyed the makeup and costumes of the tribesmen, whom the English call ...

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of ... on her feelings toward John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged romance ever existed between Pocahontas and Smith, but ...

It’s October, which means it’s the time when some people get out their decorative gourds and paper skeletons, as Halloween stores begin stocking their shelves with superheroes, politicians, movie ...

In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

Even people who don’t know much about United States history have heard of Captain John Smith and the Native Amercan girl Pocahontas. A few may even recall the story, once known to every ...

John Smith is saved from death at the last moment by Chief Powhatan’s favorite daughter, the fair Pocahontas. They fall in love, but like a Jamestown version of Romeo and Juliet find themselves ...

Years after Pocahontas’ death, former Jamestown leader Capt. John Smith needed the Indian princess’s legend to secure his own fame. During the Colonial era and beyond, Virginian and British ...