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The London Company established the Virginia Colony in 1607 in the Powhattan homelands of Tsenacommacah, whose capital was Werowocomoco. The English settlement at Jamestown experienced several significant events in 1619 that proved to be very important in the history of Virginia and what would become the United States. In 2019 we commemorate several events from 400 years ago at Jamestown that changed the course of U.S. history:
- The House of Burgesses became the first elected legislative assembly in the New World. Although it took nearly four centuries for Virginia to reluctantly realize universal suffrage, it continues as the Virginia General Assembly in Virginia’s modern capital, Richmond, Va.
- The arrival of the first Africans to English North America at Point Comfort (present site of Fort Monroe National Monument)
- The arrival of European women to Jamestown to build community
- The first official Thanksgiving in English North America at Berkley Plantation.
- The first labor strike in America, a strike by the Poles for the right as free adult men to elect members of the House of Burgesses.
- Jamestown saw the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurialism develop that kept the colony thriving.
In honor of this year and the many commemorations taking place in Virginia, here is a list of books, websites, and videos that will help you learn more about the lasting importance of Jamestown and the year 1619 in America’s history and culture. This includes fiction and nonfiction for all ages, DVDs, and websites. All books and videos are available at the Norfolk Public Library.
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Historical Thanksgiving Cooking and Baking: Special Berkeley Plantation Edition -- The Site of America's First Official Thanksgiving in 1619
Robert W. Pelton - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Recipe measurements in years gone by were given in ways that present day cooks aren't at all familiar: teacupful, wineglassful, tincupful, a kitchencupful, a tumbler, 1 dram liquid, dessertspoonful, saltspoonful, butter the size of a walnut, pound of eggs, pound of milk, gill, etc. Therefore,... |
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Indian Givers * How Indians Of The Americas Transformed The World
J McIver Weatherford - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." THE WASHINGTON POST After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored... |
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Historical Thanksgiving Cooking and Baking: Special Berkeley Plantation Edition -- The Site of America's First Official Thanksgiving in 1619
Robert W. Pelton - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Recipe measurements in years gone by were given in ways that present day cooks aren't at all familiar: teacupful, wineglassful, tincupful, a kitchencupful, a tumbler, 1 dram liquid, dessertspoonful, saltspoonful, butter the size of a walnut, pound of eggs, pound of milk, gill, etc. Therefore,... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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Jamestown Colony: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
Frank E Grizzard - ABC-CLIO
Format: Book
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"Four centuries after its founding, Jamestown has become the stuff of movies, legend, and tourism. This important work treats the reality behind the legends?Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Powhatan, John Smith, and others?and puts the stories into a broader context. More than 250 A?Z entries... |
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The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3
Adam Smith - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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The classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThe publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America's Declaration of Independence, and with this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way for modern... |
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Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
MICHAEL GUASCO - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Paperback
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Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and,... |
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Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century
Warren M Billings - Library of Virginia
Format: Hardcover
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A Little Parliament is the first extended history of the founding and evolution of the oldest legislative body in the New World. The Virginia assembly developed legislative traditions that provided the basis of the American form of representative government. Based on extensive research... |
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Jamestown, the Truth Revealed
William M Kelso - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious... |
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Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635
Martha W. McCartney - Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their... |
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The Jamestown Project
Karen Ordahl Kupperman - Belknap Press
Format: Book
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Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers... |
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Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
James P P Horn - Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes,... |
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The empire of necessity : freedom, slavery, and deception in the New World
Greg Grandin; Luis Moreno; Recorded Books LLC. - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates. |
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The Jamestown Colony
Melissa Higgins - Core Library
Format: Print book
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Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Jamestown ColonyAuthor: Higgins, MelissaPublisher: Abdo GroupPublication Date: 2013/01/01Number of Pages: 48Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: |
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Colonization and Settlement in the New World: 1585–1763
Pat McCarthy - Core Library
Format: Library Binding
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Discusses the social, political, and economic conditions in the early English colonies, providing details on the first unsuccessful efforts, the establishment of Jamestown, the settlement of later colonies, and the French and Indian War. |
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New Beginnings: Jamestown and the Virginia Colony 1607-1699
Daniel Rosen - National Geographic Children's Books
Format: Library Binding
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What makes people give up their life of comfort to travel thousands of miles across the sea to an uncharted land? This is what many have wondered about the settlers who made their way from England to the Virginia Colony in the early 1600s. From their arrival in 1607, the settlers of Jamestown... |
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My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth
Ann Turner - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements,... |
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Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Walter Dean Myers - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In this picture book biography, the late New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and acclaimed artist Floyd Cooper take readers on an inspiring journey through the life of Frederick Douglass.Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon.... |
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Harriet Tubman: Leading Others to Liberty
Torrey Maloof
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The Harriet Tubman: Leading Others to Liberty primary source reader builds literacy skills while offering engaging content across social studies subject areas. Primary source documents provide an intimate glimpse into what life was like during the 1800s. This nonfiction reader can |
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Celebrating Thanksgiving
Jenna Lee Gleisner
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Engage readers with a story of celebrating the fall holiday of Thanksgiving. Readers are introduced to the concepts of harvest and Thanksgiving traditions, such as volunteering, giving thanks, and spending time with family. Additional features include a table of contents, phonetic |
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A Short History of Thanksgiving
Sally Lee - Capstone Press
Format: Print book
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Young readers learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Thanksgiving. |
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally M Walker - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Print book
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How did the colonists of Jamestown and Maryland live and die? Forensic anthropology provides an incredible array of answers. Scientists can look into a grave and determine the skeleton's gender, age at time of death, nationality, and sometimes even economic standing within minutes.... |
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A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People
Benjamin Albert Botkin - Globe Pequot
Format: Print book
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Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work... |
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Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading." -- Nightjohn"I didn't know what letters was, not what... |
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Tidewater: A Novel
Libbie Hawker - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A clash of desire and hatred, of friendship and fear, of stark ambition and desperate survival.In 1607, three ships arrive on the coast of Virginia to establish Jamestown Colony. Their only hope of survival lies with the Powhatan tribe. John Smith knows this. He knows, too, that the Powhatans... |
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Jefferson's Sons
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave childrenBeverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never... |
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The birth of a nation
Nate Parker - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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In 1831, when Virginia slave Nat Turner learns of slavery conditions in other parts of the state, he leads an uprising against slave owners in the area. |
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America before Columbus
Cristina Trebbi; Victor Garber; Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion.; National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washi - Nat'l Geographic Vid
Format: DVD
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History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America... |
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Godspeed to Jamestown
Rick Beyer - A & E Television Networks
Format: DVD video
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Four centuries ago, after four and a half months at sea, three ships (Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeed) landed on the shores of Virginia and established Jamestown. To mark the quadricentennial, a museum quality reproduction of the Godspeed was constructed in Maine. Hosted by Steve... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,... |
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Lincoln
Steven Spielburg - Masterpiece
Format: DVD
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Feature film from the USA. 1865. Dramatisation of US President Abraham Lincoln's struggle to ban slavery, as the American Civil War ends.
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The New World
Colin Farrell - The New World
Format: Book
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In this romantic epic starring Colin Farrell, Christian Bale and beautiful newcomer Q'orianka Kilcher, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick brings to life the classic true tale of Pocahontas and her relationship with adventurer John Smith set during the turbulent beginnings of America. ... |
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