Programs for the 2000-2001 school year have included Mission to America , focusing on the years of Spanish, French, and British discovery and exploring the ways in which different European nations and different Native American groups interacted. Potions, Ails and Smallpox Tales looked at colonial America through the eyes of an 18th-century apothecary s apprentice. Buying Respectability looked at the way clothes and money were keys to social mobility in the colonies. A core lesson in the Becoming Americans curriculum, Our Struggle to be Both Free and Equal, this field trip explores how African Americans resisted slavery. Frederick Douglass narrates this history of slave rebellions from colonial times to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Viewers can observe three cases taken directly from Virginia court records.
A core lesson in the Becoming Americans curriculum. British troops in April 1775 seize colonial weapons and gunpowder in Virginia and Massachusetts. Students can join the Patriots in the confrontations at Lexington, Concord and Williamsburg that launched a Revolution.