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 ...

John Smith's Bold Endeavor. 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." ...

John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017 ...

Captain John Smith said her “wit, and spirit” made her stand out. Smith first met Pocahontas when he was captured a few weeks after the first colonists’ arrival in the area.

The names of John Smith and Pocahontas are more intertwined than perhaps any others in U.S. history. The story of the English captain saved by a love-struck Indian princess has been told and ...