What’s New
May 3, 2012
How will future generations advance our society?
“When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.”
–Thomas Jefferson, March 3, 1818
in Podcasts
May 2, 2012
We built this city: Meet the carpenter
in What's New
April 27, 2012
The Historic Area welcomes 19 Leicester Longwool lambs
Elaine Shirley, Colonial Williamsburg’s manager of the Rare Breeds program, says 19 new lambs, including several sets of twins, have been added to the Foundation’s sheep flock. The lambs were born within about a month’s time, the first arriving on March 17 and the most recent on April 15.
Guests can see lambs at the Peyton Randolph House property, located at the corner of Nicholson and North England Streets, and at the pasture near Bassett Hall. Come visit!
Learn more about our Rare Breeds Program.
April 26, 2012
What should our schools teach?
“The objects of this primary education [university education] determine its character and limits. These objects are To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts, in writing; To improve by reading, his morals and faculties; To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either; To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment.”
–Thomas Jefferson, August 4, 1818
in Connect
April 25, 2012
Dissent during wartime
Today at Colonial Williamsburg CONNECT, the question is: Should we tolerate dissent in wartime?
Protecting speech that is difficult or inflammatory is one of the challenges of honoring the Bill of Rights. Is a nation at war better served by united citizens, or by citizens secure in their right to speech?
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