Virginia Center for Digital History

Our mission is to develop high-quality, well-researched, and reliable history resources in digital format and deliver them to schools, colleges, libraries, historical societies, and the general public via the Internet. By doing this we hope to transform how American history is taught, learned, understood, and accessed. To achieve this mission VCDH has committed itself to collaborative efforts with other institutions, both within and outside of the University of Virginia system, and to using innovative technologies which allow information to be freely accessed by a general audience.

Contact:
PO Box 400116
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4116
Phone: (434) 924-4777
Fax: (434) 243-5566
Website: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/


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Projects By Virginia Center for Digital History:

American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar
Mink, Andrew T (Andy). Sponsor: Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation
The Tredegar website will serve as an interactive teaching tool that complements the student and teacher experience at the museum. Our goal is to create a history lab online where educators and students ...

AS-VCDH Digital Dolley 2
Shulman, Holly Cowan. Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities

Building Digital Communities
Ayers, Edward L. Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
Building Digital Communities is an effort by the Virginia Center for Digital History to create and extend communities of learning and experience through new technologies available through the World ...

Chesapeake Bay Environmental History: The Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Railroad
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
The Eastern Shore Public Library is collaborating with the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia on a NEH Preservation and Access Grant entitled "Chesapeake Bay Environmental ...

Chesapeake Bay Environmental History: The Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Railroad
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
The Eastern Shore Public Library is collaborating with the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia on a NEH Preservation and Access Grant entitled "Chesapeake Bay Environmental ...

Digitizing the Dolley Madison Archive
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
The Dolley Madison Archive will be a fully searchable digital archive of the complete correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison. The mort important American First Lady of the 19th century, her letters were ...

Geography of Texas Slavery
French, Scot A. Sponsor: The Summerlee Foundation
The Geography of Texas Slavery project is a map-based initiative at the University of Virginia to document the spread of slavery into and throughout Texas. The project will produce a website that features ...

In the Midst of History: A Model of Professional Teacher Development for American History Teachers in Southern Virginia
Mink, Andrew T (Andy). Sponsor: HALIFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Svcs, U.S. Postal This project creates online tools for teachers of American history. Materials regarding those teaching tools will need to be disseminated to school systems and teachers, ...

Jefferson's Travels: A Digital Journey Using the History Browser
French, Scot A. Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
The Jefferson's Travels Project is a joint undertaking of the Virginia Center for Digital History and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to ...

Local Knowledge: Danville
French, Scot A. Sponsor: Va. Foundation For The Humanities & Public Policy
The Virginia Center for Digital History will develop a digital edition of Mapping Local Knowledge: Danville, Va., 1945-1975, an online exhibit that focuses on the stories of longtime black residents ...

Modern Virginia History: Web-Based Content Seminars for K-12 Teachers
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Virginia Department Of Education
The Center for Digital History (CDH) at the University of Virginia supports distance learning web-based curriculum materials for K-12 teachers. We propose to teach distance-learning seminars on Virginia ...

Modern Virginia History: Web-Based Content Seminars for K-12 Teachers
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Virginia Department Of Education
The Center for Digital History (CDH) at the University of Virginia supports distance learning web-based curriculum materials for K-12 teachers. We propose to teach distance-learning seminars on Virginia ...

Short Term State Project
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Virginia Tech
To explain the collaboration between Virtual Jamestown (VJ) and the Virginia Center for Digital History. As you know, VJ, joined VCDH in August 1998. We are pleased to be partners with VCDH in this exciting ...

Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography
Miller, Joseph C. Sponsor: Va. Foundation For The Humanities & Public Policy

Smithson Web Site
French, Scot A. Sponsor: Smithsonian Institution
The University shall develop two dynamic visualization elements in-depth (hereinafter referred to as the "History Browser"), a chronology of James Smithson's life, using their browser, and a "circle ...

Teaching American History Grant(Roanoke City, LEA)
Mink, Andrew T (Andy). Sponsor: ROANOKE CITY SCHOOLS
Perspectives, Identity, Legacy: Democracy in American History Education is a Teaching American History grant proposal that will be submitted in partnership with Floyd County, Salem City, Roanoke ...

Television News in the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Va. Foundation For The Humanities & Public Policy
This project seeks funding to annotate, index, and make available rare Virginia television news footage from the archives of WS1S and WDBJ and to disseminate these valuable teaching resources to targeted ...

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
Shulman, Holly Cowan. Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
This grant will enable the completion of the path-breaking Dolley Madison Digital Edition (DMDE) and launch The Women of the Founding Era (WFE). The WFE will extend the scholarship of the documentary ...

The Foundations Project: Settlement, Conflict and Change in American History
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Russell County Schools
Scott and Russell County Public Schools with the Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium, on behalf the sixteen public school districts of Southwest Virginia, propose to work on the foundation ...

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: U.S. Nfah - Nat'L Endowment For The Humanities
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia project seeks to compile, transcribe, map, and digitize all of the runaway slave advertisements in Virginia from the colonial period through 1860, make them widely ...

The History Engine
French, Scot A. Sponsor: Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
The Southern History Database (SHD) is a set of online tools which allow undergraduate students to share their research and collaborate with other students in their own class, or any classroom in the ...

The Virginia Experiment: Growing the Seeds of Democracy in Four Hundred Years of American History
Mink, Andrew T (Andy). Sponsor: CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS
"The Virginia Experiment: Growing Seeds of Democracy in Four Hundred Years of American History" has one overall goal: to improve student achievement by providing high-quality professional development ...

Three Perspectives of the Civil War Told Through Leveled Podcasts
Mink, Andrew T (Andy). Sponsor: Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation

Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
French, Scot A. Sponsor: Va. Foundation For The Humanities & Public Policy
VCDH, in partnership with independent scholars Marie Tyler-McGraw and Deborah Lee, requests $10,000 to complete work on a digital archive, "Virginia Emigrants to Liberia: A Window into Slave and Free ...

Virginia Standards of Learning in History - Outreach & Support
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Jessie Ball Dupont Fund

Virtual Collections of Jamestown
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
We will begin with a census and database of electronic resources on Jamestown. The template for the database of this census will use the protocols of the Mellon American Studies Electronic Resources Project ...

Virtual Jamestown Project
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: Virginia Tech
The Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH) will have the Complete Works of John Smith and Records of the Virginia Company digitized, via the Digital Library Production Services organization at the ...

Virtual St. Augustine Project
Thomas, William G III (Will). Sponsor: University of North Florida
VCDH will aid in the design and development of a prototype website for this project. This work will include: • developing XM1, markup and XSL stylesheets for textual materials • marking up ...

Faculty:
Ferster, William A – Senior Scientist
French, Scot A – Director of the Va Ctr for Digital History & Associate Prof
Mink, Andrew T – Director of Outreach and K-12 Education
Rainville, Lynn – Research Assistant Professor of Virginia Center for Digital History

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