Not just Pocahontas

A wonderful new exhibit opened last month at the National Museum of Natural History, Written in Bone, Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake. After viewing a real-life CSI just brimming with history, you might want to check out some related texts from (all over) the Libraries:

From the National Museum of American History Library, two titles that provide historical background of this fascinating slice of local American history:

• A land as God made it: Jamestown and the birth of America
• The Jamestown project

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery Library, two titles focusing on Pocahontas:

• The pilgrims and Pocahontas: rival myths of American origin
• Pocahontas and her world; a chronicle of
  America's first settlement in which is related the story of the Indians
  and the Englishmen, particularly Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel
  Argall, and Master John Rolfe

From Special Collections, two titles from the 1907 tercentennial of Jamestown:

• 1607, Jamestown exposition, 1907, Hampton Roads, Virginia
  
• Jamestown tributes and toasts

From the Research Annex, two titles on the archaeological excavation of Jamestown:

• Jamestown Island : a comprehensive analysis of the Jamestown Archaeological Assessment, 1992-1996
• Archaeological survey of Jamestown Island

From the Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian, two titles on Jamestown and the James River:

• Envisioning an English empire: Jamestown and the making of the North Atlantic world
• The river where America began: a journey along the James

This is only a small cross-section of what the Libraries has to offer on this engrossing subject. Check out our catalog… —Elizabeth Periale