JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Settlement’s popular Director’s Series resumes on March 19 with distinguished educator Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason (Schaghticoke/HoChunk), the 2024 National History Teacher of the Year from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation announced.
The program will feature Executive Director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Christy S. Coleman in conversation with Lamb-Cason, an accomplished educator, advocate, author and storyteller.
For the past decade, Lamb-Cason taught history at Riverbend High School in Fredericksburg, where she earned recognition for her innovative lesson plans and leadership in history education at the local, state and national levels. The Gilder Lehrman Institute honored her with a national award that epitomizes excellence and outstanding contributions in American history education, the foundation noted.
Now serving as the assistant director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University, the foundation highlighted she is dedicated to advancing Indigenous studies, ensuring accurate representation of Indigenous voices, and promoting the respectful inclusion of Indigenous histories in educational resources.
The Director’s Series, now in its fourth year, features conversations with scholars and public figures surrounding our shared legacies of American history.
Upcoming programs in the series will feature American journalist and Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams on May 21; James Pepper Henry, chair of the Kaw Nation and one of the nation’s leading public historians, on Sept. 17; journalist and host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” Michele Norris on Oct. 22; and Rick Atkinson, historian and author of “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777,” on Nov. 19.
The series, held at 7 p.m. at Jamestown Settlement, costs $10 per program and is available in-person or virtually or $50 for the entire series.
Admission is limited and tickets must be purchased online in advance. Tickets can be purchased at jyfmuseums.org/directorsseries
