Jamestown Roanoke Colony

After many trials and errors, Jamestown became the first successful colony in America. The effort put behind Jamestown was strong enough to support and develop the colony. However, such effort was not always put behind expeditions across the Atlantic. The Roanoke story demonstrates what insufficient interest and activity could lead to. The Roanoke settlement is a mystery which has boggled many historians for years, however, with our current knowledge and accessibility to information, historians are able to connect some of the dots. Karen Ordahl Kupperman is one of the historians who were able to develop possibilities about what happened to Roanoke’s lost colonists.
Karen Kupperman was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota. Fictional books such as the Grimm and Andersen's fairy tales were the object of her obsession. Additionally, her childhood experience with migrating to …show more content…
It was because of these shifts of environment that she got interested in history, moreover, she lived experiencing World War I and witnessed the perceptions of various people. The cultural differences absorbed her, curiosity wanting to know why and how these lands were vastly different. History - specifically the Atlantic World- has been her favorite subject, and her hobbies include hiking and walking. After earning her Bachelor's degree in History in 1961, she went on to get her masters degree at Harvard with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship foundation, a fellowship established to support and develop leaders who could rise up to many challenges the world presents. Only after being employed as an adjunct at the University of Connecticut did she realize her love for writing and teaching history. As a result, her husband, Joel Kupperman, and 2 sons, Michael Joel and Charles Anders Kupperman, attended Cambridge and she received her Ph.D in 1978. She returned to and stayed a couple of years at the University of Connecticut, until she became a professor of history at New York University. From here,