Free Web site Offers Resources on the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown, VA
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SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 04/25/2007
Three history organizations—ABC-CLIO, National History Day, and the History Channel—have joined together to offer a collection of resources for educators on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, VA, to help students better understand the first successful British settlement in North America and honor the colony's anniversary.
From April 19 to May 31, the Jamestown Colony Web site will offer students a complete database from ABC-CLIO on the Jamestown Colony, covering all the personalities, political intrigue, and conflict with Native Americans that came with the colony's founding. The database also offers the complete text of Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. and D. Boyd Smith's just-released encyclopedia, Jamestown Colony: A Political, Social, and Cultural History.
Users will find a video-clip library from the History Channel, as well as recommended classroom activities from National History Day that help illustrate the relationship between the Powhatan people and the Jamestown settlers. Primary source documents can also be found, including the first Virginia charter and John Smith's account of an expedition to meet the area's American Indians.
In June 1606, the Virginia Company of London was granted a charter to establish a colony in the New World in order to exploit the area's mineral resources. Three ships, the Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed, carried 108 adventurers and indentured servants across the Atlantic Ocean to the North American continent and created Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America.
