Pocahontas: References & Edit History
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There have been many fictionalized tellings of Pocahontas’s story. Factual accounts of her life and times include David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (2003) ; and the classic Philip L. Barbour, Pocahontas and Her World (1970). The broader context of her people and American colonialism is found in Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (2000). The role of Pocahontas’s life story in American art, drama, and literature is considered in Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative (1994).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: National Park Service - Pocahontas. | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - The Little Red Princess Of The Forest. | May 15, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Homeschool History - Pocahontas. | Apr 02, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Virginia Museum of History and Culture - Pocahontas Remembered An Ocean Away. | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - Pocahontas In England. | Jul 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Princess Pocahontas. | Jun 14, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Pocahontas. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jamestown Residency - Pocahontas. | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: New York University - On the Many Lives of Pocahontas, and Others 'Caught Between'. | May 07, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - Not a fairytale at all: the real story of Pocahontas. | Dec 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Who is the Real Pocahontas? | Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation - Who was Pocahontas? | Aug 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historical Association - Case Study - The story of Pocahontas. | May 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The True Story of Pocahontas as NOT told by Disney. | Apr 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Biography of Pocahontas. | Aug 26, 2022 | ||
| Noted that when Pocahontas took ill she was probably suffering from an upper respiratory ailment (though some historians believe that she may have contracted smallpox or dysentery). | Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 12, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Native Indian Tribes - Pocahontas. | Apr 30, 2019 | ||
| Noted that according to Powhatan tradition Pocahontas was married to a Powhatan man named Kocoum before her marriage to Rolfe. | Nov 02, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 15, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 20, 2017 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Oct 20, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Oct 20, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Pocahontas. | Mar 19, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Biography of Pocahontas. | Mar 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Powhatan Museum - Biography of Pocahontas. | Jul 11, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Virtual Jamestown - Biography of Pocahontas. | Jul 11, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Virginia - Pocahontas. | Jul 11, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Pocahontas. | Jul 11, 2016 | ||
| Added a description of Pocahontas's depiction in art and literature. |
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Sep 25, 2015 | |
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Primary History - Famous People - Pocahontas. | May 09, 2014 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Pocahontas. | Nov 12, 2008 | ||
| Media revised. | Sep 28, 2007 | ||
| Offensive image (Assembly 75294; Asset 83388) removed. | Sep 28, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: APVA Preservation Virginia - Pocahontas. | Jul 12, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The American Studies at the University of Virginia - Pocahontas - Icon at the Crossroads of Race and Sex. | Jun 28, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 11, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 30, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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