Secondary Sources: Periodicals

A Note on Subscription Databases

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Periodicals

The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Ser.
Call Number: F221 .W71
Published/Created: 1944-
The William and Mary Quarterly is the preeminent journal for the study of Early America, including the earliest years of encounter among Indians, English, and Africans on the North American continent. Published since 1892 and in its current (third) series since 1944, it is available in print at the Library of Congress and other research libraries. It is also included in several electronic subscription databases, the most complete of which is noted below.
American Antiquity
Call Number: E51 .A52
Published/Created: 1935-
Published by the Society for American Archaeology.
Early American Studies
Call Number: E186 .E117
Published/Created: 2003-
Published by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Historical Archaeology
Call Number: E11 .S625
Published/Created: 1967-
Published by the Society for Historical Archaeology.
North Carolina Historical Review
Call Number: F251 .N892
Published/Created: 1924-
Published by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Call Number: F221 .V91
Published/Created: 1893-
Published by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly the VIrginia Historical Society).
Issues from 1893 to 1924 are also available in electronic form from Hathi Trust. External

JSTOR External This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a vast collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back several centuries. It includes complete runs of all the periodicals noted here.
America: History and Life with Full Text External This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life with Full Text is the most comprehensive database indexing and providing full access to periodical literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. It includes many articles relevant to the study of the Jamestown and Roanoke colonies and related topics, including Indigenous history in the Chesapeake, Albemarle, and Outer Banks regions; and the intertwined developments of English settler colonial society and African slavery in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina throughout the seventeenth century.

Selected Articles

Aveni, Anthony. "How Was 'The Tyme Appointed'?" External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2005.
Aveni, Anthony. "The Indian Origins of Lacrosee." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2010.
Aveni, Anthony. "Why Virginia Was Not Spanish." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2013.
Axtell, Jamers. "Historical Rivalry." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2007.
"Captured in Watercolors: Elizabethan England's First Glimpses of New World Fauna." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2009.
Gardner, Andrew G. "Nathaniel Bacon, Saint or Sinner?" External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2015.
Gardner, Andrew G. "We Are Not Going To Go Away: Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2013.
Gardner, Andrew G. “Captain Smith Departs: The Question Still Remains: Hero or Betrayer?” External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2009.
Kelso, William M. “James Fort, Lost and Found.” External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Summer 2011.
Lenman, Bruce P. "Virginia’s Father: King James I." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2001.
Montgomery, Dennis. "'Such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of.'" External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2007.
Montgomery, Dennis. "A River Worth Fighting For." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 1994.
Montgomery, Dennis. "Captain John Smith's Christmas." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Christmas 2004.
Montgomery, Dennis. "Captain John Smith: 'An Ambityous unworthy and vayneglorious fellowe.'" External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 1994.
Montgomery, Dennis. "Old Muddy James and the Flow of History." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 1992.
Nicholls, Mark. “‘Things Which Seame Incredible’: Cannibalism in Early Jamestown.” External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2007.
Noël Hume, Ivor. "Jamestown Revisited." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2004.
Noël Hume, Ivor. “Upon Paine of Death: The Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Summer 2011.
Noël Hume, Ivor. “We Are Starved.” External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2007.
Straube, Bly. "In Praise or Damning Caricature? An Early Seventeenth-Century Identification Badge." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2010.
Swenson, Ben. "Pamunkey Recognition." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2015.
Theobald, Mary Miley. "Henricus: A New and Improved Jamestown." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Winter 2004-5.
Theobald, Mary Miley. "The Tyme Appointed." External
Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2005.

For additional articles from Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which was published between 1984 and 2015, consult it in print form at the Library of Congress; or use WorldCat External to find it in print in a library near you.

Jamestown and Roanoke Colonies: A Resource Guide

Secondary Sources: Periodicals

A Note on Subscription Databases

Periodicals

Selected Articles