Welcome -- Jamestown Rediscovery Welcome to the official website of the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project at Jamestown Island, Virginia, the first permanent English colony in North America. Excavations began in 1994 with the hopes of finding some evidence of the original 1607 James Fort, for over two centuries thought lost to river shoreline erosion. Today, archaeologists have rediscovered much of the fortification and have recovered over a million artifacts that tell the true story of Jamestown. Please come and explore with us as we uncover "The Buried Truth" of America's birthplace.
Mayflower This voyage has become an iconic story in the earliest annals of American history with its tragic story of death and of survival in the harshest New World winter environment. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Compact is one of the greatest moments in the story of America, providing the basis of the nation's present form of democratic self-government and fundamental freedoms. Early history From the Port Books of England in the reign of James I (1603-1625), there were twenty-six vessels bearing the same name as the Pilgrim ship and the reason for such popularity has never been found.[6] A particular Mayflower that has caused historical confusion is a Mayflower erroneously named as the Mayflower of the 1620 Pilgrims. From records of the time, and to avoid confusion with the many other Mayflower ships, the identity of Captain Jones’ Mayflower is based on her home port, her tonnage (est. 180-200 tons), and the master’s name in 1620.[6] Voyage Passengers
William Penn William Penn Visionary Proprietor Tuomi J. Forrest Introduction Penn in the U.S. Penn and the Indians Penn Plans the City Further Reading Mayflower And Early Families Columbus and the Age of Discovery - History Department - Wikis @ Millersville In 1989 as its contribution to the forthcoming Columbian Quincentenary, Millersville University created and installed an innovative, online dial-in text retrieval system known as The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery. Ahead of its time even as commemorations began for the 500 th Anniversary 1992, CIRS became one of the first academic projects of the newly created Internet. Recognized as an official project of the U.S. Christopher Columbus Jubilee Commission, Spain92, as well as several other countries, CIRS received national and international recognition including the accolade of being “a model for all future historical databases” by the AHA. Also, it became an integral part of the “Kids Safe” EdSITEment learning program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Unfortunately, Millersville University can no longer maintain the current project as a viable online database of information. Finally, the Project Director, Thomas C.
Contact Era WHITE MEN ARRIVINGNew Hampshire dates its first European settlement as 1623. But explorers visited at least two decades before. Fisherman from Europe apparently inhabited the Isles of Shoals as early as 1600. Visitors crossed up and down New Hampshire's tiny coastline for centuries, perhaps for millennia, before the first foreign settlers arrived, but who, where and when? These visitors came to the Piscataqua River region, not for religious freedom, but for adventure and for wealth. Of course, it was not yet New England. So which European, after 10,000 years of native American occupation, first settled here? B>Thompson's father worked for Sir Fernando Gorges of Plymouth, a most powerful English noble who had received the rights from King James I to set up the first two American "plantations" at Jamestown and Plymouth. Apprenticed as a seaman and trained as an apothecary, Thompson made frequent trips to America. There are no articles in this category.
1492 Exhibit an Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC 1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life like in those areas before 1492? 1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE addresses such questions by examining the rich mixture of societies coexisting in five areas of this hemisphere before European arrival. The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. The dramatic events following 1492 set the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the Americas which are still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage. The exhibit is divided into six sections: You may obtain information about order the catalog for this exhibit from the EXPO Book Store. There is a free EXPO Shuttle Bus waiting outside. Note: This hypertext Library contains inlined images in GIF format.
Columbus in American History "We arouse and arrange our memories to suit our psychic needs." -- Michael Kammen America's national memory is filled with icons and symbols, avatars of deeply held, yet imperfectly understood, beliefs. The role of history in the iconography of the United States is pervasive, yet the facts behind the fiction are somehow lost in an amorphous haze of patriotism and perceived national identity. This gallery was not in place at the birth of the political nation. "The association between Columbus and America took root in the imagination" in the eighteenth century. It is not hard to understand the appeal of Columbus as a totem for the new republic and the former subjects of George III. If the Revolutionary generation was inspired by Columbus, consider the reaction of the nineteenth century: Columbus was an embodiment of that century's faith in progress--seeking out new lands, a fearless explorer. How did Columbus achieve this status? History of the Doors | The Doors | Columbus in the Capitol
La Salle Archeology Projects | Texas Historical Commission La Belle and Fort St. Louis Excavations The Texas Historical Commission (THC) excavated two of Texas' most important archeological sites relating to the famous French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who in 1684 led an ill-fated expedition to establish a French colony on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. First was the excavation in 1996–97 of La Salle's ill-fated ship La Belle that sank in Matagorda Bay in 1686. La Belle is one of the most important shipwrecks ever discovered in North America. The excavation, conducted in a cofferdam, produced an amazing array of finds, including the hull of the ship, three bronze cannons, thousands of glass beads, bronze hawk bells, pottery and even the skeleton of a crew member. Following the excavation of La Belle, from 1999 to 2002, THC archeologists excavated Fort St.