Historyisfun.org Podcasts

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Podcasts from Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, two living-history museums in Williamsburg, Virginia. To learn more, visit www.historyisfun.org.

Episodes

  • Virginia Expands

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Jamestown was the first English settlement in Virginia in 1607. Within a few years, though, the colony began to stretch its boundaries both in population and territory.

  • Pocahontas and the Two Johns – Smith and Rolfe

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    One of the most famous love stories in history is that of Pocahontas and John Smith. There’s only one little problem with that romantic tale: It never happened.

  • Voyage to Virginia

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    In late April 1607 after 6,000 miles and over four months at sea, a little flotilla bearing 104 settlers and the hopes of anxious investors, rounded Cape Henry beginning the grand adventure that became Virginia.

  • Virginia Company of London

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    For nearly two decades the Virginia Company of London tried to exploit its monopoly in the New World. Despite its efforts and innovations, its money and influence, the company could not make the colony pay.

  • Tobacco and Labor

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Tobacco cultivation in early Virginia could be lucrative if one had land and labor. Land was there for the taking, labor was another matter.

  • Women

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Although outnumbered, sometimes six to one, women played an important role in the survival and prosperity of Jamestown and Virginia.

  • The Great Charter and the First General Assembly

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    The prospects for Virginia seemed bleak in 1618. The death rate was high, there were few if any profits or capital resources, and the course of the colony was uncertain. That year the colony acquired a new leader and a new direction.

  • Angolan Connection

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Angela, an African from what is now the modern nation of Angola, was captured by Portuguese slave traders for shipment to the Spanish colony of Mexico. In 1619, when her ship was captured by privateers in the Caribbean, she became one of the first Africans in Virginia.

  • Colonial Entrepreneurs

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    In a burst of entrepreneurial creativity, the Virginia Company, founder of the Jamestown colony, tried again and again to make the colony a commercial success.

  • John Smith and the Problems of Leadership

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Councilor, geographer, diplomat, soldier, taskmaster.  In great measure the Jamestown settlement survived by the hand of Captain John Smith.

  • The Brothers Powhatan

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    In 1607 Indians of Virginia’s Tidewater discovered they had new neighbors on the James River. Their leaders, Powhatan and Opechancanough, countered the English threat in different ways.

  • Virginia Company Charters and Challenges

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    Over its seventeen year life span, the Virginia Company struggled to plant a colony far from the edge of European civilization and to make it yield a profit. To some extent they were making it up as they went along.

  • Profit Motive and Global Economy

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    The Virginia Company’s huge investment finally paid off. Although it came too late to save the company, the profits from tobacco made Jamestown a significant player in the world economy.

  • Alqonquian Empire

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    In 1607, when Christopher Newport’s little fleet anchored in what would be called the James River, it made rival claim to a domain inhabited by the highly organized and sophisticated Powhatan paramount chiefdom.

  • Africans Come to Virginia

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    The great tobacco fortunes of early Virginia would not have been possible but for the steady supply of African slaves toward the end of the 17th century. They were transported from Africa along an extensive and sophisticated pipeline.

  • England in 1607

    04/08/2008 Duration: 01min

    When the early colonists departed England bound for Virginia, they left behind a society divided by class, rank, wealth and religion, but also one uniquely unified in its view of the world.