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Colonial Williamsburg's 2000-2001 Electronic Field Trips
	Missions to America October 5, 2000 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	Travel to America's First English Settlement, a French Great Lakes trading post, and a Spanish mission in the Southwest to explore how different European nations colonized America.
	Potions, Ails and Smallpox Tales November 2, 2000 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	Through the eyes of an apprentice, visit an 18th-century apothecary to learn about medical practices, materials, and equipment of the time.
	The Case of the Shuttered Room December 7, 2000 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	Join young history sleuths who enlist the aid of Colonial Williamsburg curators, historians and archaeologists to learn how the artifacts from the William Waters house help solve the mystery of the people who lived there.
	Buying Respectability January 18, 2001 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	Learn how clothes indicated and affected a colonist's social standing in the New World. Investigate the 18th-century consumer revolution with dress and fashions from Margaret Hunter's Millinery Shop.
	Flames of Freedom February 15, 2001 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	Explore how African Americans resisted slavery. Frederick Douglass narrates this history of slave rebellions from colonial times to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
	Order in the Court March 15, 2001 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	How did 18th-century courts treat young people? Observe three cases taken directly from Virginia court records. These 200-year-old trials could have come from today's newspapers.
	The April Conspiracy April 26, 2001 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern time	March with British troops in April 1775 as they seize colonial weapons and powder in Virginia and Massachusetts. Join the Patriots in the confrontations at Lexington, Concord and Williamsburg that launched a Revolution.