Jamestown Settlement/Yorktown Center
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Cost per student $8.00
Meet in NSU Circle Drive in Front of Library, 9:00 am
Leave Norfolk State, 9:15 am
Begin Jamestown Settlement Tour, 10:30 am
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Begin Yorktown Tour, 2:30 pm
Arrive back at Norfolk State, 5:30 pm

Reading: "The Jamestown Fiasco" from Edmund Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom. [pdf]

Link: Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Center [link]

TRIP PHOTOS CLICK [HERE]

Colonial Williamsburg
Saturday, October 9, 2004
Cost per student $5.00
Meet in NSU Circle Drive in Front of Library, 10:15 am
Leave Norfolk State , promptly at 10:30 am
Lunch 11:30-12:30
Begin Guided Tour of Williamsburg, 12:30 pm
Arrive back at Norfolk State 5:00 pm

Reading: Chapters from The New History in an Old Museum
Chapter I: The New History in an Old Museum [pdf]
Chapter III: Why History Changes [pdf]
Chapter VII: New Challenges [pdf]
Reading Guide: For chapters I, III, and VII [pdf]

Buy The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg by Richard Handler and Eric Gable. It is available here from bn.com.

In addition:
You may find reviews of The New History [here] and [here]
- An interesting article entitled "Excursions into the Un-Remembered Past: What People Want from Visits to Historical Sites" can be found [here]

Link: Colonial Williamsburg [link]

TRIP PHOTOS CLICK [HERE]

Monticello and the University of Virginia
Saturday, November 6, 2004
Cost per student $10.00
Meet in NSU Circle Drive in Front of Library, 7:45 am
Leave Norfolk State , promptly at 8:00 am
Guided Tour of Monticello, 11:30
Lunch, 1--2:00
Tour of the University of Virginia 2:15
Arrive back at Norfolk State , 6:00 pm

Reading: Selected items from our e-project, Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Enigma [here]

Link: Monticello [link]

Re-enactment: Battle of Great Bridge
Saturday, December 4 | Time: 10am - 4pm
Meet, NSU Circle Drive in Front of Library, 9:00 am
Leave, Norfolk State University at 9:15 am
Return, Norfolk State University at 2:00 pm

Commemorate: Remember the Patriot victory at Great Bridge on December 9, 1775, with re-enactors and demonstrations.

Study: Presentation (if any) of the Ethiopian Regiment, which was assembled by the Last Royal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore.

Location: The event will be held on the site of the 1775 battle in "downtown" Great Bridge. Go to Callison Drive just off of “Rt 168 business” adjacent to the new Great Bridge overpass at the inter-coastal waterway.

Telephone: Chesapeake Parks & Recreation: (757) 382-6411

Websites of Interest:
Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Foundation
http://www.gbbattlefield-waterways.com/

Battle of Great Bridge Overview:
http://sites.communitylink.org/cpl/battlebridge.html

Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/

African Americans In The Revolutionary Period
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/african_americans.html

Abbreviated Bibliography on the Ethiopian Regiment
Woody Holton, “Free Virginians Versus Slaves and Governor Dunmore” in Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia , pages 133-63.

Elizabeth A. Fenn, “Vigilance” in Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 , pages 55-62.

John E. Selby, The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783.

Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution.

Ellen Gibson Wilson, The Loyal Blacks.

Spring 2005

Southampton County - Nat Turner Rebellion
Date to be announced
Cost to be announced
Tour of Turner Rebellion Site

Reading: The Confessions of Nat Turner [link]

Reading: "Enslaved African Rebellions in Virginia [pdf]

Reading: "Slavery in U.S. Survey Textbooks" [pdf]

Link: Africans in America: Nat Turner [link]

 

Appomattox Court House
Date to be announced
Cost to be announced
Tour of Appomattox Court House and Site

Reading: "America's Birth at Appomattox" [pdf]

Reading: "A Bold Break For Freedom" [pdf]

Link: Appomattox Court House [link]