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it said colonial and had pottery sticking out. and under that is indian, and there were stone tools. i said, well, what is this black layer? i said, that looks pretty interesting. and -- we were on at that time a piece of -- its really not part of the national park. youre on private property. this is owned by preservation virginia, which is then known as the association for the preservation of virginia. and he said, well, weve never had a chance to really look here. he just gave me tha...

>> i know what you want. >> my idea, i take a lot of heat for this. we havent found a complete cannon yet, okay, thats up there. >> we found the muzzle of one. but thats not good enough for him. >> not good enough. >> it blew up when it was fired. >> bly, is there an artifact that youd like to find? >> go ahead, you go. >> oh, goodness gracious. you know, we have almost found everything you can imagine from straight pins to guns. i love them all, so thats a hard question for me. >> her...

on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs on our web site. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> youre watching american history tv. joining us live from the historic jamestown settlement, jim kelso and senior curator bly strom. thank you to both of us for joining us on this beautiful saturday afternoon. wed like to invite our viewers to join us. you can call or you can participate by twitter. i understand, bly, you have something with you tha...

and events. visit college class rooms around the country. go behind the scenes at museums and historic sites on american artifacts and the presidencies, look at the policies and legacies of past president. view our schedule at cspan.org. as the presidential campaign enters its final month and the political parties prepare for their conventions, american history tv will air c-spans original series, the contenders, featuring 14 key political figures who ran for president and lost but imp...

environmental history and marks book is really a fulfillment of this vision, is that we understand the world better, we understand the past better, if we dont treat human beings in isolation from the rest of creation, from the rest of nature. we are in nature, our lives are dependent upon natural systems. and our relationship with other organisms. and many, many historical phenomena arent fully explicable if you see us isolated from those relationships. >> is it your viewpoint that his...

1699, and i understand that a lot of the records burned, but there were quite a number of ships that arrived in jamestown, probably 100 or 1,000. is there any detailed book that you used in your research that describes those ships arriving and possibly who was on those ships during that time period? >> its -- well, to my experience its scattered in the records. you wouldnt -- there is no comprehensive list that i know of. >> theyre not complete either. yeah, there are some passenger li...

questions and comments with archaeologist william kelso and senior curator bly straub. in the next hour, we join mr. kelso as he explains how he unearthed the original fort. and we visit bly straub in the archaeology lab to help reveal what life was like inside jamestown fort over 400 years ago. im bill kelso, im the director of the jamestown rediscovery project, archeological project. its been going on for 18 years. and what im going to do is to give you sort of lecturettes at diffe...

take the tour at 1:30 p.m. and join in the conversation answering your questions live at 2:30 eastern. part of american history tv will this weekend on c-span3. coming up next, the miller somewhere of public affairs at the university of virginia hosts a discussion on george h.w. bushs diplomacy wars and marks the release of transcripts from oral history interviews conducted with bush administration officials. >> let me introduce my fellow panelists. tim got his doctorate in history f...

departments. then as now, access was critical to a lobbyists success and sam enjoyed remarkable access to offices around town. these were men he had known since childhood, met at boarding school, met at columbia, men who had danced with his sisters and whose sisters he had danced with. men who had kind at his tables and he at theirs. like some other lobbyists, he traded information providing facts around figures. many commented on his memory. with the facts he had stored away about min...

artifacts 1 1/2 million artifacts youve uncovered in the last 20 years or so. what do you mean by reading it? whats the most important part of that? >> what i meant by that was that i have to learn the context of each of the materials. why they were made, where they were made, what their purpose was, who may have carried them to jamestown, what their use may have been in jamestown. it may have been different from their original usage in england. and it becomes very complex when you try...