![]() ![]() Randall Stephens: How prominent is Jamestown in the American popular imagination? James Horn: The history of Jamestown has been almost completely overshadowed by die history of Plymouth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historically Speaking assonate editorRandallStephens spoke with Horn in October2006. Horn is currently workingon a history of the lostRoanoke colony. "Horn "brings togethertheperspectives of recentgenerations of scholars in this relatively brief andhighly readable book. Historian Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University, describes this study as a "grandeffort. His most recentwork is A Land As God Made It:Jamestown and die Birth of America (BasicBooks, 2005). He is abo the editor of thejust-published Library of America's edition ofJohn Smith's works. A social historian, Horn has analysed colonialsociety within the broader context of the 17th-century Anglophone world. He is the author of numerous books and articles on colonialAmerica, includingAdapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeendi-Centary Chesapeake (University of North Carolina Press, 1994). Library at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation andlectureratthe College of William andMary. Stephens JAMES HORN IS O'NEILL DIRECTOR OF THE JOHN D. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ħ Historically Speaking March/April 2007 Jamestown Redivivus: An Interview with James Horn Conducted by RandallJ. ![]()
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