Patrick Henry, as portrayed by Colonial Williamsburg interpreter Richard Schumann, defends the bill on religion he introduced to the Virginia General Assembly.

Stewart Pittman, a military interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, talks about the city's Powder Magazine, looking particularly at the Boys' Company, a group of young men who broke into the magazine in order to steal muskets for drilling for participation in the American Revolution.

Tom Hay, supervisor of the Courthouse at Colonial Williamsburg, looks at public protest and victimization of Loyalists in the period leading up to the American Revolution, including tarring and feathering, burning in effigy, and other public humiliations.

Ken Johnston, a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, looks at the beliefs and actions of Benedict Arnold, arguing that Arnold never betrayed his own beliefs and values.

Buck Woodard of Colonial Williamsburg describes the population and social organization of Native American society in the Chesapeake area prior to and during the arrival of the Jamestown colonists, focusing particularly on Powhatan and the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom.

Ken Johnston, an interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, portrays Benedict Arnold, the American general and hero of Saratoga who became a British brigadier general and fought in the Revolutionary War on the British side. Johnston gives the general's perspective in 1781, after he captured Richmond and Williamsburg.

Rhys Isaac, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History, discusses his work in researching and writing about colonial Virginia life, in which he takes an anthropological view of the past, trying to uncover people's day-to-day lifestyles.

Bridgette Houston, an African American interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, discusses the process of manumission, by which slaves in colonial Virginia might be freed.

Mark Schneider, a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, speaks as the Marquis de Lafayette, giving a first-person perspective of this youthful Frenchman whose assistance helped the Patriots win the decisive battle of the Revolutionary War.

Jack Flintom, an interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg speaks as John Randolph, a loyalist in Virginia's climate of revolution.