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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? >> it's -- well, to my experience it's scattered in the records. you wouldn't -- there is no comprehensive list that i know of. >> they're not complete either. yeah, there are some passenger lists. but unfortunately -- no one's compiled it all. >> we'll get -- >> won't have survived. >> o...

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. i'm bill kelso, i'm the director of the jamestown rediscovery project, archeological project. it's been going on for 18 years. and what i'm going to do is to give you sort of lecturettes at different places about the property, and talk about a little bit about the history of jamestown, a li...

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. bush's 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 from harvard. he then went on to teach history and was recruited to come to the miller somewhere as ...

departments. then as now, access was critical to a lobbyist's 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 mining or steam travel or rail rates coupled with amusing anecdotes, he could hold his listener' atten...

artifacts 1 1/2 million artifacts you've uncovered in the last 20 years or so. what do you mean by reading it? what's 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 to put all those stories together, because each material type has a different kind of story to te...