Director’s Series and Talking History Programs at Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., September 10, 2025 – Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown are proud to present an inspiring array of special guests that just might change the way our past and present is presented in upcoming Director’s Series and Talking History Programs.

Director’s Series

Join Christy S. Coleman, executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, as she sits down with prominent scholars and public figures for lively and enlightening conversations surrounding our shared legacies of American history. Director’s Series programs are $10 per session. Advance registration is required and tickets can be purchased at jyfmuseums.org/directorsseries.

James Pepper Henry
September 17 • Jamestown Settlement

Discover how his compelling approaches to collecting, interpretation and programming of Native culture has ignited new conversations. Chair of the Kaw Nation and one of the nation’s leading public historians, he has served as executive director of innovative institutions at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.

Michele Norris
October 22 • Jamestown Settlement

Experience inspiring open and honest dialogue with stories and perspectives drawn from her personal journey, investigative research and interviews with world leaders, Nobel Laureates and newsmakers. An award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in radio, she serves as host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

Rick Atkinson
November 19 • Jamestown Settlement

A historian and award-winning author, he most recently published "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777," the first volume in his Revolution Trilogy, followed by the second volume, "The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780."

Talking History Programs

Programs offer public lectures and first-person performances that link storylines found in the museums’ exhibition galleries and share how these vast moments in America’s past influenced its progression to the present. Talking History programs are included with museum admission. Advance registration is required and seats can be reserved at jyfmuseums.org/lectures.

Carol Jarboe
September 20 • American Revolution Museum at Yorktown

Carol Jarboe performs as the fictional character Maggie Delaney, an Irish indentured servant who gains passage to early America in the early 1700s, only to lose her family in the process. Maggie’s tale will bring to light the difficult journey that many ancestors took to secure themselves in a new land.

Carson Hudson
October 4 • Jamestown Settlement

While the Salem witch trials get notoriety, Virginia's witchcraft history dates back much further. Author, local historian and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Carson Hudson utilizes surviving records to discuss fascinating stories showing how the belief in witchcraft affected Virginia’s social, religious and material culture.

About Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown

Jamestown Settlement and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown are administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and a commemorative partner of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.

Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s days), Jamestown Settlement is located on State Route 31 just southwest of Williamsburg and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown is located on Route 1020 in Yorktown, near Yorktown Battlefield and Historic Yorktown. Parking is free. Follow our museums on social media @jyfmuseums. For more information, call (757) 253-4838 or visit jyfmuseums.org.

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Media Contacts

Meghan van Joosten, meghan.vanjoosten@jyf.virginia.gov or (757) 253-4175
Tracy Perkins, tracy.perkins@jyf.virginia.gov or (757) 253-4114