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The Ground Beneath our Feet The History of Virginia since the Civil War

Link: www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/

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 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. http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ Virtual Jamestown is a research-teaching-learning project to explore the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."http://www.virtualjamestown.org/ Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 is an archive containing film footage from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia. Included are clips of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as segments documenting school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/ Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/ 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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