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Year 1 - Fellows Research |
Richards Maxwell - Albemarle
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Topic Question
What roles did children play in the first successful English Colony Jamestown?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Crandall Shifflett
Virginia Tech
Project Director for “Virtual Jamestown”
Professor of History & Director of Graduate Studies
Lance Weisend - Albemarle
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Topic Question
How did Bacon's Rebellion affect the development of Virginian's political institutions and attitudes in the last quarter of the 17th century?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Scot French
University of Virginia
Director, VCDH
Professor of History and African-American Studies
Krishna Kishore - Charlottesville
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Topic Question
What effect did the House of Burgesses have on the creation of other colonial assemblies? What relationship, if any, did the House of Burgesses have with the other colonial legislatures?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Peter S. Onuf,
University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History
Margie Roache - Charlottesville
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Topic Question
When and how did slavery begin in Virginia? What were the issues that changed from the indentured servants in 1619, to the legalization of slavery in 1661?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Lauranette L. Lee
Virginia Historical Society
Curator of.African American History
Teresa Beahm - Greene County
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Topic Question
Besides his famous speech and the Stamp Act Resolutions, what other important contributions did Patrick Henry provide to Virginia and the United States during his governorships?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Jon Kukla,
Patrick Henry Nat’l Memorial – Red Hill
Executive Vice-President of the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation
Holly Newman - Greene County
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Topic Question
A Plateau on the Playing Field: World War Two’s Effect on the Civil Rights Movement
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Ed Ayers
University of Virginia
Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History
Tamie Campbell - Madison
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Topic Question
What influence did the League of the Iroquois have on the formation of the U.S. Constitution? What is the history of the official recognition or lack thereof this influence on America's democracy?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Dan Thorpe,
Virginia Tech
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History
Lee Sellinger - Madison
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Topic Question
How did Indians, women, and enslaved and free African-Americans contribute to the vision of freedom during the Revolutionary period and therefore the infancy of our democratic heritage?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Dan Thorpe,
Virginia Tech
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History
Rachel Carlton - Orange
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Topic Question
What is the history of Jim Crow in Orange County?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Joseph Miller
University of Virginia
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor (1972)
Early Africa, Slavery, Slave Trade, World History
Teresa King - Orange
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Topic Question
How religious were the Virginians of the 17th century? How does religion in Virginia compare to that of Puritan New England (1600s)?
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Ben Ray
University of Virginia
Professor of Religious Studies
The Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor
Chris Bunin
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Topic Question
County Seats
Scholar Advisor
Dr. Robert Morrill
Virginia Tech
Professor Emeritus and Co-Coordinator, Va. Geographic Alliance
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