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The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project on Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, creates a social history of the coming, fighting, and aftermath of the Civil War. |
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Virtual Jamestown is a research-teaching-learning project to explore the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." |
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Civil Rights Television News Archive, 1950-1970 is a collection of news films from two Virginia television stations, WDBJ and WSLS. The project includes rare footage of civil rights events, leaders, and participants. |
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The Southern History Database is a teaching and research tool that allows students to collaborate with fellow students. By compiling the research of undergraduates into a single comprehensive database, the SHD provides students and teachers access to a wide-ranging portrait of life in the nineteenth-century South. |
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The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Railroad is a collaborative project with the Eastern Shore Public Library. By analyzing geographic, photographic and textual sources, this project explores the massive changes in the environmental, economic, and social networks of Accomack and Northampton Counties between 1870 and 1935. The arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad ushered in a new era of economic development, social change, and landscape transformation. |
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Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South is a collaborative work with the Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at UVA. The project examines the era of segregation in one community and explores African American politics, families, schools, businesses, churches, and other institutions to gain perspective on African American history and the culture of the segregated South. |
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The Geography of Slavery Project is a digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. When a slave or servant ran away, masters often placed remarkably detailed advertisements for their return. This project offers full transcripts in SGML format and images of all runaway and captured ads for slaves, servants, and deserters placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. |
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The Dolley Madison Project provides a window onto the domestic, political, and social worlds of Dolley Madison and on the development of elite Washington, D.C. society in the early national period. |
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The Modern Virginia History Project is a collaborative work with Central Virginia Educational Television Corporation. "The Ground Beneath Our Feet" documentary film series and web site covers Virginia history from 1865 to the present. The site includes the first four films--the Secession Crisis in Virginia, New Deal Virginia, Massive Resistance, and World War II in Virginia. |
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"One Hundred Years of Life on the Lawn" is an electronic exhibition which documents continuity and change in the various University communities who have called the Academical Village home since 1895. |
| GIS Resources | |
| Aggregating and Georeferencing 1860 U.S. Census Data in GIS: Some Preliminary Conclusions from the Valley of the Shadow Project | |
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of a Digital GIS Database for Augusta Co.,Virginia, 1860-1870: Overview, outline, and detailed discussion of plans and procedures for data automation |
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| "Similarity and Difference in the Ante-bellum North and South" in Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History edited by Anne Kelly Knowles. pages 35-50, 2002 (ESRI Press, Redlands, CA). |
| Publications & Reports |
| "The Pasts and Futures of Digital History" by Edward L. Ayers |
| "The Differences Slavery Made: A Graphical Representation" by William G. Thomas and Edward L. Ayers (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) |
| "In the Valley of the Shadow: Communities and History in the American Civil War" by William G. Thomas |
| Presidential Libraries Conference remarks, "Democratizing History," by William G. Thomas |
| Organization of American Historians remarks on "History in Hypertext" by Edward L. Ayers |
| Technology and Constructivist Teaching in Post-secondary Instruction: Using the World Wide Web in an Undergraduate History Course by Natalie B. Millman and Walter F. Heinecke |
| "With Good Reason" Sarah McConnell Interviews William G. Thomas and Nicole Tucker (requires Real Audio plug-in) |
