The Valley of the Shadow:
Related Web Sites

First, a disclaimer: these lists are in no way intended to be comprehensive. The Web is growing by leaps and bounds, so there are plenty of sites out there that we have yet to explore. If we have omitted something, please send us some mail about it. Also, many of these sites have links to other sites, or to each other. This list is of the most general and most comprehensive sites.

Civil War

CWSAC Battle Summaries

The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission presents summaries of battles by state and by campaign.

The United States Civil War Center

Housed at Louisiana State University. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive center for all Civil War interests, both scholarly and popular. It succeeds admirably in this effort.

The American Civil War Homepage

This site is maintained by the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. It has a particularly complete index of Civil War documents available on-line.

The Boyle Bronx Civil War Archive

Brian Boyle's site is strongest on regimental histories and information for present day reenactors.

Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress

This is a keyword searchable index of the Library of Congress' collection of Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs. It's part of their larger American Memory Collection.

National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

The National Park service is currently creating a computerized database of everyone who fought in the Civil War. This page gives you access to some of their work in progress, as well as other NPS sites.

Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley

This is another National Park Service Site. It has numerous maps and written descriptions of fifteen Shenandoah Valley battlefieds. It also addresses the problems of present-day battlefield preservation.

Augusta County

Augusta County Resources

This unique local history site mixes geneological and local history material to create an archive of Augusta County information.

American History

The National Park Service

The National Park Service site offers changing features on history, archeology, cultural studies, and ethnogrophy.

The National Archives

Acess to the National Archives Clio information server, which includes information about holdings and exhibits.

The Library of Congress

This allows users to browse through digital images and textual descriptions of the Library's holdings. It also contains information on upcoming events and exhibits. The Library has just unveiled a new Learning Page for the National Digital Library Program historical collections, aimed at K-12 educators and students.

The Smithsonian Institution

This is one of the most comprehensive and exciting sites for history. Explore the Smithsonians different museums, or get information on programming, events, and other resources.

The University of Kansas Virtual Library for Historians

This no-frills site contains links to over 1000 other history sites, indexed by subeject.

The Gilder Leherman Institute of American History

The Gilder Lehrman Collection contains approximately 70,000 items relating to American history from its European discovery and settlement through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Their website contains electronic documents relating to slavery and the slave trade.

The American South Homepage

Located at UNC-Chapel Hill, The Center for the Study of the American South provides links to a variety of historical and cultural works about the South.

The Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia (formerly the Virginia State Library), located in Richmond, has recently digitized several of its collections, including Family Bible records, the Virginia Colonial Records Project, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection. Their website also provides access to the LVA's online catalog.

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia
The Virginia Center for Digital History.: Explore other VCDH projects, including Virtual Jamestown, African American History, and Modern Virginia History.
The Institute For Advanced Technology in the Humanites.: Explore other IATH projects.
The Corcoran Department of History: This page provides information about UVA's history department, and links to work by graduate students and faculty.
Special Collections: This gopher server allows you to search the guides to UVA's special collections of manuscripts and rare books.
The Virginia Newspaper Project: This project aims to both preserve and make more accessible newspapers from throughout the Old Dominion's history. It maintains several exhibits on the Web.

Educational Sites

Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications offers more than 50 hours of commercial free video programming for educators and Internet site support this programming with lesson plans, activities and Internet project resources.