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Talking History
August 2, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Talking History Programs
The Talking History Programs, offer public lectures and first-person performances that link storylines found in the Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown museums’ exhibition galleries. The stories share how these vast moments in America’s past influenced its progression to the present.
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The Talking History program is included with museum admission. Register in advance to reserve your seat.
August 2: Alphonso F. Saville IV – Scholar Alphonso Saville discusses his new book, “The Gospel of John Marrant: Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic,” in a conversation with Dr. Travis Harris. Discover how West African spirituality and Protestantism influenced North America’s first Black ordained minister and helped shape African American Christianity.
Dr. Saville is a scholar of American religion whose research focuses on the legacies of slavery in American religion, African American Christianity and the religions and literature of the African diaspora. Dr. Saville is Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Mission at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, NC. He was previously an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow for American Religion and Slavery in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, and also the 2014-15 Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship in African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College…Learn more
September 20: Carol Jarboe – Carol, who has been a history enthusiast for many years, followed her husband into Living History as a way to encourage and excite those she meets into learning more about our past. Always an educator at heart, Carol enjoys bringing interesting facts and the struggles of everyday people whose stories often go untold.
Carol Jarboe performs as the fictional character Maggie Delaney, an Irish indentured servant who gains passage to the new world in the early 1700s, only to lose her family in the process. Maggie’s tale will bring to light the difficult journey that many of our ancestors took to secure them-selves in a new land…More
October 4: Carson Hudson – Carson Hudson has been passionate about history since he was a young boy growing up in Virginia, surrounded by Civil War battlefields. He is a practicing military and social historian, author, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and circus fire-eater. He lectures regularly at museums and colleges on a wide variety of subjects, but his particular interests are the Civil War and colonial witchcraft. He performs regularly as part of the old-time music duo Hudson & Clark and with the Cigar Box String Band.
The 1626 case of Joan Wright, the first woman to be accused of witchcraft in British North America, began Virginia’s own witch craze. Utilizing surviving records, author, local historian and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Carson Hudson discusses these fascinating stories showing how the belief in Witchcraft effected Virginia’s social, religious and material culture.
The Talking History program is included with museum admission. However, please register in advance to reserve your seat.
Local residents (James City County, York County and the City of Williamsburg, including William & Mary students) receive free admission with proof of residency. Details
