2007 Heritage Lecture Series

2007 HERITAGE LECTURE SERIES
 at Jamestown Settlement 

• Sunday, May 20 
  The Life and Legacy of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
  Mr. Peter Armstrong, Museum Director of the Royal Armouries, will explore the life of the first true shogun of Japan.
  2 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Classrooms A & B
   
• Saturday, June 2
  Journeys Through Time: African and African American Lives in  Virginia
  Dr. Joseph Miller, University of Virginia professor and African Studies Association president, is an expert on the worldwide slave trade and Angolan history.           
  7 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Robins Foundation Theater 

• Saturday, August 4
  The Lessons of History Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author, served as a White House Fellow and taught at Harvard for 10 years.
  7 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Robins Foundation Theater 

• Saturday, September 8
  Creating the American Mirror of Representation: From Jamestown (1619) to Philadelphia (1787)
  Dr. Jack Rakove, Stanford University professor of History and American Studies and 1997 History Pulitzer Prize winner.
  7 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Robins Foundation Theater 
  

• Saturday, October 6
  Great Presidents Past and Present 
  Mr. Michael Beschloss, best-selling author of books on leadership
  and the presidency and NBC News Presidential Historian. Sponsored by the AMERIGROUP Foundation.
  7 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Robins Foundation Theater 

• Saturday, November 3
  Native America in the 21st Century:  Out of the Mists and Beyond Myth
  W. Richard West, Jr., member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a Peace chief of the Southern Cheyenne, and founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
  7 p.m., Jamestown Settlement, Robins Foundation Theater 

The lectures are free to the public. Seating is limited. Advance reservations should be made at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov.