Opening Session

OPENING REMARKS:

Professor Allen Weinstein, Chief Archivist of the United States

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OPENING PRESENTATION:

Virtual Jamestown: Making Historical Resources Available

Wednesday 16th May at 8am
Speaker: Crandall A. Shifflett

Henry Spelman was a young boy who went to live with the Indians and learn their language.  John Smith tells of his first encounter with Powhatan. John Rolfe gives reasons why he wants to marry Pocahontas. These rare documents and much more can be read by everyone with a computer and access to the Internet. This lecture explores these and other resources on Virtual Jamestown - www.virtualjamestown.org

 

Crandall A. Shifflett, Virtual Jamestown Project Director, is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Shifflett is the author of Coal Towns, winner of the Weatherford Award, and other books on southern and U.S. history. In 1996 he conceived the idea of combining technology, history and Jamestown 2007.  Virtual Jamestown is part of "e-2007" plans to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding.