History.com Launches Interactive Jamestown Web Site
History.com Launches Interactive Jamestown Web Site
Dynamic Jamestown Destination Timed with 400th Anniversary of Jamestown
NEW YORK, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- This month marks the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, America's first settlement established by 144 men who sailed across the Atlantic from England. In honor of this milestone, History.com, the ultimate online destination for history from The History Channel(R), today launched a dynamic and interactive Jamestown microsite that will allow users to explore the history of Jamestown, its settlers, and its place in our nation's history, at www.history.com/classroom/jamestownstory.
The Jamestown story on History.com is presented in chapters that consist of a uniquely illustrated narrative, important event nodes, and an extensive bibliography with live links to primary sources. Additionally, insightful video commentary is available from some of the most renowned and respected Jamestown historians today, including:
-- Keith Mayes, Professor of African American Studies, University of
Minnesota
-- Edmund Morgan, Emeritus professor of American History at Yale
University
-- Chief Anne Richardson, Rappahannock Indian Tribe
-- Helen C. Rountree, Emeritus professor of cultural anthropology at Old
Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia
From its birth, to its battles, to the personalities and cultures that made their mark, History.com's Jamestown highlights include:
-- The English and Powhatan in 1606: Virginia was named after Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I, an honor enacted by the 144 English settlers. The
powerful Powhatan tribe lived and thrived in the area upon the
Settler's arrival.
-- John Smith and Chief Powhatan: Legend has it that John Smith was
captured on an expedition, but released by Chief Powhatan after his
daughter, Pocahontas, threw herself between him and his executioner.
-- This was the Starving Time: A multi-year drought left the settlers
starving, and their aggressive pursuit of food from others left Chief
Powhatan prepared to starve the colony out. Relations would vary
between friendly and strained.
-- Tobacco: Tobacco changed the fate of Jamestown and Virginia - a profit-
wielding crop that led settlers to push tribes to yield more land.
-- Africans Arrive in Virginia: In 1619, the first Africans reached
Jamestown, and the English colony. A limited labor pool and the
development of tobacco as a cash crop encouraged the growth of slavery
during the first century of settlement.
-- Legacy of Jamestown: Jamestown was the first place in British North
America where cultures formed on three different continents - Africa,
America, and Europe - collided. Extensive information on the cultures
and experiences of these three groups can be explored at History.com's
Jamestown.
With rich video clips, historian commentary, interactive maps, and teaching tools, History.com's Jamestown is a destination that guarantees to entertain and educate its visitors.
The 400th Anniversary of the Jamestown settlement will be celebrated the weekend of May 11-13 in Virginia.
The History.com Jamestown website was produced by Invioni.
About History.com
History.com is the definitive historical online resource that delivers entertaining and informative content through interactive timelines; video; maps; games; podcasts and RSS feeds. History.com delivers thousands of video streams, from presidential speeches, to UFO sightings, to D-Day, the award- winning site will showcase newly created video clips daily. Web exclusive broadband video content has been developed from popular series and specials on The History Channel including Modern Marvels, Digging for the Truth, and Lost Worlds. Search through History.com which provides access to an extraordinary amount of historical information with unprecedented speed. In addition, an online classroom will supply educational resources including study guides and lesson plans for teachers. The website is located at http://www.history.com/.
About The History Channel(R)
The History Channel(R) is one of the leading cable television networks featuring compelling original, non-fiction specials and series that bring history to life in a powerful and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. The network provides an inviting place where people experience history in new and exciting ways enabling them to connect their lives today to the great lives and events of the past that provide a blueprint for the future. The History Channel has earned four Peabody Awards, three Primetime Emmy(R) Awards, ten News and Documentary Emmy(R) Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History(R) campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. The History Channel reaches more than 91 million Nielsen subscribers.
Source: History.com
CONTACT: Stephanie Pettinati of the Zeno Group for History.com,
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