Valley of the Shadow: two communities in the American Civil War

The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War--Augusta County, Va. and Franklin Co., Pa. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, geographic information systems data, maps, population;census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters. The Valley of the Shadow will be;published in CD-ROM version by W. W. Norton & Co. in three parts. The first part Web site focuses on the coming of the Civil War, the second on the Civil War battles and homefront, and the third part on Emancipation and Reconstruction after the;war. The Valley project is a University ofVirginia research project funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.

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Field	Value
DC_Title	Valley of the Shadow: two communities in the American Civil War
DC_Subject_Specific	social;Confederate States of America;United States;genealogy;archive;American history;American Civil War;Virginia;Pennsylvania;military
DC_Description	The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War--Augusta County, Va. and Franklin Co., Pa. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, geographic information systems data, maps, population;census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters. The Valley of the Shadow will be;published in CD-ROM version by W. W. Norton & Co. in three parts. The first part Web site focuses on the coming of the Civil War, the second on the Civil War battles and homefront, and the third part on Emancipation and Reconstruction after the;war. The Valley project is a University ofVirginia research project funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
DC_Language	eng
DC_Type	Interactive
DC_Format	WWW pages - database/dynamic
DC_Publisher	Virginia Center for Digital History
DC_Publisher_Address	Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;vcdh@virginia.edu;http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu
DC_Contributor_PersonalName	Rubin, Anne S.;Murrell, Amy E.
DC_Coverage_X_min	-80.15
DC_Coverage_X_max	-74.53
DC_Coverage_Y_min	37.59
DC_Coverage_Y_max	40.41
DC_Coverage_T_Early	1850
DC_Coverage_T_Late	1870
DC_Coverage_PeriodName	American Civil War and Reconstruction
DC_Coverage_PlaceName	N & C Am., USA, Virginia, Augusta County, Staunton;N & C Am., USA, Pennsylvania, Franklin County, Chambersburg
DC_Coverage_Spatial_Georeference	County
ECAI_Team	North America
ECAI_Notes	The Valley Project data set began in 1991 under the direction of Edward L. Ayers at the University of Virginia. Dozens of graduate and undergraduate research assistants have worked on the project. Anne S. Rubin served as project manager from;1994-1996 and William G. Thomas served as project manager from 1996 to 2000. The project is used by several thousand unique visitors per day.
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