America's 400th Anniversary: The Quadricentennial Commemoration of the Founding of Jamestown, 1607-2007: Final Report of the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission

Spine title reads: America's 400th Anniversary, Final Report of the Federal Commission. Final Report of the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission. Summarizes the story of America's 400th Anniversary, an 18-month program of commemorative activities and events.

The 400th anniversary commemoration produced stunning new discoveries, significant new scholarship, impressive new interpretive facilities, and illuminating new educational initiatives that will continue to enhance our understanding of the remarkably consequential convergence of man and nature in the Chesapeake region four centuries ago.   Anniversary-related programs and activities increased public awareness of the foundational importance of the Jamestown settlement and Virginia colony in our nation’s history.  The activities enhanced language, culture, values, a shared past, and an interdependent future.  The programs also featured a timely and profound international dialogue on the foundations and future of democracy –a wide-ranging assessment of the free institutions that have prospered worldwide in our time, and on which the aspirations of people everywhere depend.

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Table of Contents:

Foreword:         A Singular Honor

Introduction:     E Pluribus Unum

Chapter 1:        America’s 400th Anniversary

                  Arranging an Extraordinary Commemoration

Chapter 2:        A Commemoration for All Americans:

                  The Role of the United States Government

Chapter 3:        Celebrating the “Special Relationship”:

                   British Participation in Anniversary Activities

Chapter 4:        Understanding Jamestown’s Enduring Legacies

                  The National Educational Initiatives

Chapter 5:        Cradle of Democracy in the Modern World:

                  The International Conference Series and World Forum

Chapter 6:        In the Bosom of the Bay:

                  New Discoveries and Ancient Lessons from the Chesapeake

Acknowledgements

Appendices

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