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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational institution operating a town-sized living history museum. It is dedicated to inspiring and engaging 21st century visitors with this nation's early American history. Costumed interpreters help visitors connect with the important events that touched the city's residents. Tradesmen reconstruct the technologies of the 18th century. Character interpreters recreate the residents who lived in the town, allowing visitors to meet and question residents as diverse as Thomas Jefferson, printer Alexander Purdie, enslaved cook Lydia Boradnax, or Gowan Pamphlet - the African American preacher who founded the town's first Baptist church. For 75 years, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has provided resources and materials to support history education in the nation's schools. During the last 10 years that effort has found new focus in an Education Outreach Initiative targeted specifically at the K-12 classroom. The foundation has worked with educators to develop an array of resources - electronic field trips, teacher development programs, and classroom resources - to help teachers enliven their classrooms with primary sources, artifact study, and engaging teaching strategies that bring excitement and vitality to the study of history. ( Fair use rights: use the tape within 10 days and erase. )

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