Willie Balderson, manager of public history development at Colonial Williamsburg, discusses Jamestown settler Anas Todkill, whom he portrays in a Colonial Williamsburg electronic fieldtrip, and the research required to portray a character who took part in early explorations of Virginia.

Jim Axtell, the College of William and Mary's William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities, discusses possible reasons why many people mistakenly believe that Plymouth was founded before Jamestown; and looks at what might be required for Jamestown to assume prominence in popular memory.

Lance Pedigo, drum major of Fifes and Drums at Colonial Williamsburg, discusses preparations for the fourth annual weekend of "Drummer's Call," as well as the use of the fife and drum during the American Revolution.

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

Jan Gilliam, manager of exhibit planning at Colonial Williamsburg, outlines the history of its 1773 public hospital, the first facility for the treatment of the mentally ill in British North America.

Neal Hurst, an apprentice tailor at Colonial Williamsburg, describes the tailor's trade in the colonial era and its practice in Colonial Williamsburg today.

Tim Sutphin of Colonial Williamsburg discusses the 1781 British occupation of Williamsburg, and Colonial Williamsburg's reenactment of the time.

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.

Bryan Simpers and Bereni New, of Colonial Williamsburg, interpret the married couple Alexander and Barbry Hoy. As Alexander and Barbry, they discuss their struggles as a middling family adjusting to the changes brought by the Revolution.

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