About Virtual Jamestown

Support comes from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Project, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Virtual Jamestown is a product of collaboration between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. The project received a large grant in 1999 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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We welcome comments and suggestions for improvements and additions on any part of the archive.

Who We Are

Crandall A. Shifflett, Project Director, is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Shifflett is the author of Coal Towns, winner of the Weatherford Award, and other books on southern and U.S. history. In 1996 he conceived the idea of combining technology, history, and Jamestown 2007. Virtual Jamestown is part of "e-2007" plans to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding. Shifflett was a participant in an NEH Summer Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2000 and will co-direct an NEH Seminar for School Teachers at the Virginia Center for Digital History in 2001.

Copyright & Fair Use

For information on using copyrighted Virtual Jamestown materials and how to properly cite materials found on the site, click here.

Awards and Recognition

Virtual Jamestown is pleased to recognize the following institutions for whose support we are grateful.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recognizes Virtual Jamestown with a planning grant for a digital archive to support research and scholarship.

Verizon

A Verizon technology grant recognizes Virtual Jamestown's role in K-12 education.

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy supported this project with an initial planning grant in 1997. It also provided discretionary funds for compiling a working bibliography of primary sources.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has supported the project with major research and teaching awards.

Virginia Tech has supported the project in a variety of ways and especially through its Research and Graduate Studies Programs.

ASPIRES

A Support Program for Innovative Research Strategies

Fair Play Foundation

Additional Awards and Accolades

Virtual Jamestown has been listed on Teaching History Online.

USA Today lists Virtual Jamestown as a Hot Site.

The History Channel.com lists Virtual Jamestown as one of its recommended sites.

EDSITEment recognized Virtual Jamestown as a humanities website. Edsitement also built lesson plans around the project.

The "Jamestown Changes" lesson plan from Edsitement is referenced in "MarcoPolo: Internet Content for Your Classroom Elementary Guide; A Teacher's Guide to Finding and Using the Best of the Net" September 2000.

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The Virginia Center for Digital History recognizes Virtual Jamestown as one of its new online digital history initiatives.