Please join the Library of Virginia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at noon when 
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, professor of history at New York University, will 
discuss her new book _The Jamestown Project_. In this work, she places the 
Jamestown settlement into its proper context as one among many early 
English ventures. She makes a compelling case that early Virginia, despite its 
false starts and appalling mortality, taught the English what successful 
colonization required. _The Jamestown Project_ is a breathtaking study of the 
colony that would become a template for all subsequent English colonies, 
including Plymouth. A book signing follows the talk.

Also, please note, on Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 5:30 pm the John 
d'Entremont will present a special program titled _“May We Be Worthy of Our 
Birthright”: Defining the Meaning of America at the Jamestown 
Commemorations, 1807–2007_. d'Entremont, the Theodore H. Jack Professor 
of History at Randolph Macon Woman’s College, will explore the effort to define 
America at the Jamestown commemorations of 1807, 1857, 1907, 1957, and 
2007. Because America has always been a set of hopes as well as a spot on a 
map, and because the founding of the United States was accompanied by a 
document proclaiming principles as the nation's reason for being, every 
generation of Americans has been consumed with interpreting those principles 
and arguing over their application. Americans, by definition, care—and often 
disagree—about what it means and what it requires to be American. Civic 
commemorations are one venue at which that concern becomes vivid.

The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown 
Richmond; free parking is available under the building.

Best,

Katie Gillespie
Education Coordinator


More upcoming events:
Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at noon: _The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two 
Continents, and One Enduring Friendship_

Thursday, June 28, 2007, at noon: _Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in 
Virginia, 1920–1945_