James Horn is vice president of research for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is author of numerous books and articles on colonial America, most recently A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (2005), and is currently editing the writings of Captain John Smith for the Library of America series.

Lecture topics:

• A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America
• The Pearl and the Gold: Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony of Roanoke

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