Episode 31: No Cause for Celebration: 350 years after Bacon’s Rebellion

 In this episode, John Ericson, Executive Director at St Luke’s Historic Church & Museum, interviews Dr. Amy Stallings, Adjunct Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, on the enduring lessons of Bacon’s Rebellion. Dr. Stallings is also a public Historian who portrays Lady Berkeley, the wife of Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley. In this conversation, we explore the causes and personalities of some of the major figures in this civil war in Colonial Virginia’s last quarter of the 17th century, a conflict that echoes in our own time.  Support the show