This week on C-SPAN's Lectures and History podcast, we explore the history of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, the Jamestown settlement established in 1607.

Joining C-SPAN is Amy Stallings, lecturer at the College of William and Mary, who has done extensive research on Jamestown's

tumultuous early years and the ongoing efforts to preserve its legacy over the past four centuries.

Established by the Virginia Company of London on a peninsula in the James River,

Jamestown faced many challenges, a lack of food, deadly diseases, and conflicts with the local

Powhatan Confederacy. More after this.

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Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Amy Stallings and I'm an adjunct history professor here at the College of William and Mary.

And today you find my class, era of Jamestestown here in Swem Special Collections.

That's our library on campus where they have pulled for us an array of items relating to the history of Jamestown.

And my lecture for the day is also detailing how Jamestown was lost, and I mean that in a physical geographical sense,

but I also wanted to examine how James Town was, quote, lost

to memory and the ways in which,

especially in the 19th century,

Virginians and Americans more broadly sought to find Jamestown and reclaim

Jamestown on the assumption that the physical location was gone.

So that's the context, and off we go.

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