Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. RubinValley of the ShadowTwo Communities in the American Civil WarThe Eve of War Winner of the e-Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College, honoring outstanding high-tech projects that bring 19th-century history to life electronically. The jury called the project "a model for digital history." An exciting, ground-level view of the Civil War through the innovative use of book, CD-ROM, and the World Wide Web, created by an award-winning historian. Two communities in America's Great Valley — Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia — separated by only a few hundred miles, share much in their politics and ways of life. Yet they emerge on opposing sides of a war in which they zealously send their sons to fight and die. Here we see a Civil War that is not the inevitable conflict of rival civilizations, but a human drama, immediate, particular, engrossing. This is history as lived experience, presented in a beautifully designed digital archive of letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, military records, maps, images, and music. With cutting-edge technology that makes full use of both CD-ROM and the Web, Valley of the Shadow allows us all — from beginners to buffs to experts — to navigate the past in ways not possible before. Whether your interests are in the Civil War, Southern history, military history, African-American history, or biography, you can explore them to the fullest here.
Edward L. Ayers is Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Anne S. Rubin is project manager of the Valley Project and an associate at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. |
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1999 / hardcover slipcased with CD-ROM / ISBN 0-393-04604-4 / Photographs, maps / 128 pages / HISTORY | |||||
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