What Happened at Jamestown?

Welcome to the APVA and Jamestown Rediscovery
The official site of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, home of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. Rich with images, maps and activities.

Virtual Jamestown
An interactive educational and research tool about "the Virginia Experiment." Includes map, a digital walking tour and public records and contracts.

Paleoclimatology and Climatology
A wealth of links to publications, software and data about paleoclimatology, the science of using natural records to interpret the past. l

Reading the Bones
An article in Smithsonian magazine about the involvement of Smithsonian scientists like Doug Owsley in identifying remains for high-profile cases around the country.

Tree-Ring Laboratory
Learn more about the work of tree-ring specialist (dendrochronologist) David Stahle and his colleagues at the University of Arkansas.

Bought and Sold in Williamsburg

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg
The official site of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Includes "electronic field trips," multimedia explorations of slavery, the development of colonial courts and the political movement that led to the Revolution.

Colonial Williamsburg -- Colonial History
Information about life in early colonial America, including the average height and life span of colonists and slaves, photographs and a timeline.

Archeology at the Atkinson Site
This site presents some of the on-going research at the 17th-century house complex near Carter's Grove Plantation where archeologists are working to tell the story of African-American life as it is informed by archaeological findings.

Archeology at Colonial Williamsburg
A wealth of information about the original research on 17th- and 18th-century colonial archaeology, including but not limited to studies of urbanization, community development, and zooarchaeology conducted by Colonial Williamsburg's Department of Archaeological Research.

In Williamsburg, The Painful Reality of Slavery
A 1999 Washington Post article about Williamsburg's controversial slave auction reenactment. By Dan Eggan.

Of Kith and Kin: Life as a Slave
A history of slavery in the American colonies with a section on the family lives of slaves.

Abolitionism in the United States
Learn more about the antislavery movement in the United States.

Thos. Jefferson, Slavemaster

Monticello-The Home of Thomas Jefferson
Official Web site of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Contains information about the third President of the United States, his home, his plantation and the people who labored there.

Life and Labor at Monticello
A Library of Congress interactive exhibit about Jefferson and his slaves. Includes images of original documents recording daily life at Monticello.

World Heritage Sites- Thomas Jefferson
A National Park Service site about Monticello's influence on American architecture.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/worldheritage/jeff.htm

Thomas Jefferson Papers: Timeline
An interactive timeline of the major events in the third president's life.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
More than 2,300 first person accounts from people born into slavery. Collected and archived in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

For Further Reading:
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University. 1998.)

Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archeology of Early American Life (New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. 1977, 1996.)

Ferguson, Leland. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992.)

Haile, Edward Wright, ed. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The first Decade: 1607-1617 (Champlain, VA: RoundHouse. 1998.)

Heath, Barbara J. Hidden Lives: The Archeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia. 1999)

Hume, Ivor Noel. The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archeological and Historical Odyssey (Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia. 1994)