James Horn, Author . Basic $26 (337p) ISBN 978-0-465-03094-1
Horn, who heads the library at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, offers a history that will put Plymouth in its place. Not only was Jamestown settled before Plymouth, in 1607, but, says Horn, it was the seedbed of many themes, both glorious (repr
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James Horn, Author . Basic $26 (296p) ISBN 978-0-465-00485-0
A leading historian of early Virginia, Horn (A Land as God Made It
) relates the convoluted, fascinating story of the failed 1598 venture on Roanoke Island: a British settlement whose 100 men, women, and children disappeared without a trace. Horn...
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James Horn. Basic, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-465-06469-4
In this compact primer on the founding of the first permanent English colony in the U.S., Horn, president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, aims to spotlight a pivotal point in American history. In one year, two contradictory events occurred:
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James Horn. Basic, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-465-03890-9
Horn (1619), president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, delivers an immersive portrait of Opechancanough (c. 1547–1646), who helped build the powerful Powhatan chiefdom in America. Horn contends that Opechancanough was the same “princely...
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