matthew costello april. march 4th is supposed to be the inauguration day back then, but it was april 30th. what happened? well, you know, originally march 4th is selected by the congress under the articles of confederation. and, you know, as we're moving from one form of government to another, but the ratification of the constitution. march 4th is selected as the date for the new term to begin. however, you have representatives coming from all across the young united states and many of whom are coming from somewhat remote places. you know, roads are not as accessible as they are today. transports is not as reliable as it is today. and so it takes longer than anticipated. and that's part of the reason why they shifted to march fourth is because they figured it would take longer for people to get to new york city. but even, you know, as anybody who can attest, who's been to new york in march, you know, they still get snow, as do the surrounding areas around new york. and so there's a delay in getting enough of

matthew costello chief education officer at the white house. historic school association. thank you for kicking off american history tv's new series, the first 100 days. thgood afternoon. i'm dr. amy stallings. i'm an adjunct history professor at the college of william and mary. and today you find my class era of jamestown here in some special collections. that's our library on campus where they have pulled for us array of items relating to history of jamestown and my lecture for the day is also detailing how jamestown was lost and i mean that a physical geographical sense. i also wanted to examine how jamestown was, quote, lost too to memory and the ways in which especially in the 19th century virginia, anne's and americans more broadly sought to to find jamestown reclaim jamestown in on the assumption that the physical location was gone. so that's the context and off we go so all semester we've been progressing through the of jamestown approximate one decade per week with some extra attention given to setting the scene for the contact and conflict that followed. we've le