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- "Freedom of the press" is a principle that twenty-first-century Americans take for granted. Eighteenth-century printers, however, were not free to express an independent view. Influenced by None, an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, explores the world of Clementina Rind, printer of the Virginia Gazette, as she teaches her young orphaned children about the economics, business, and process of publishing an eighteenth-century newspaper.
- A free, public education for all Americans was not always the standard. In "A Publick Education," Horace Mann traces education methods, which varied depending on economic status, from the colonial period to the one-room schoolhouses of the 1840s where standardized education for all in the community began. The changing role of education in the young democracy is also examined.
- In early America plantation owners exploited the labor of enslaved African-Americans to become wealthy in an agricultrual economy. Chained to the Land, an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, examines the economic, social, and racial realities of plantation life. A master facing a financial crisis is forced to sell some of his slaves in order to save his plantation, lifestyle, and reputation and, in doing so, tears apart the slaves' families.
- Jefferson's West, an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg produced in partnership with Monticello, explores the science, diplomacy, commerce, and exploration of the Louisiana Territory by Lewis and Clark's Corps of Volunteers for North Western Discovery. Hear the stories of this remarkable expedition through the voices of Lewis and Clark and the American Indians they encountered. Join Thomas Jefferson as he examines the flora, fauna, and Indian artifacts they collected and reflects on the significance of the expedition.
- Missions to America explores how England, France, and Spain colonized America at Jamestown, in the Great Lakes area, and in the Southwest.
- Enlist in the 2nd Virginia Regiment with a young recruit Soldier of Liberty explores the everyday life of a soldier on the eve of the American Revolution. March with Nathaniel Hutcheson into battle for his first encounter with the noise, confusion, and horrors of war.
- Modern man's interactions with domestic animals are dramatically different from those of his eighteenth-century ancestors. The Rare Breeds explores how work animals were used in colonial Virginia. this program also examines how Colonial Williamsburg preserves rare breeds to recreate the life and times of early America