Through this text, CD-ROM and Web site, users can gain a ground-level view of the coming of the American Civil War. It examines two communities in the Shenandoah Valley, separated by a few hundred miles, who emerged on opposing sides of the conflict. The Civil War is presented, not as an inevitable conflict of rival societies, but as a human drama.
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This interesting package, which focuses on two towns on opposite sides of the Civil War, allows readers to do their own research with a CD-ROM and web connections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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An excellent book...describing both the history of the region and the roots of the conflict....Navigating the CD is a snap. -- New York Times, David M. Oshinsky, 2 November 2000
Best Civil War Site. -- Yahoo!
Thrilling. . . . Valley of the Shadow is the most interesting historical Web site I've yet encountered. -- Mark Horowitz, American Heritage
Best Civil War Site. -- Yahoo!
Thrilling. . . . Valley of the Shadow is the most interesting historical Web site I've yet encountered. -- Mark Horowitz, American Heritage
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Valley of the Shadow's content is incredibly rich!,
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This review is from: The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Eve of War (Hardcover)
I would highly recommend this book and CD-ROM package to anyone who is interested in social history of the South or Civil War history. The letters and newspapers sections are especially fascinating. They give incredible first-hand accounts of the daily lives of people of these two communities. The data seems endless. The team that compliled this information is to be commended.
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Don't judge a book by its title,
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This review is from: The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Eve of War (Hardcover)
"This title is not what I expected it to be, a comparison of two communities, one in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania, during in the American Civil War. It is not a comparative social, or economic, or political history. It is instead a very short introduction to the "Valley of the Shadows" project in which primary sources related to the history of each community during the war are placed on-line presumably for use by teachers of American history who want their students to be able to see actual diary entries, newspaper articles, etc. etc. prepared by people who lived during the war years. This title explains how these two communities were selected but it is left for classroom students to do the comparative analysis. One might write a comparative study of these two communities based on the "Valley of the Shadows" materials but this book is not it.
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IN EARLY 1861 it seemed that every issue of the newspapers offered conflicting reports, advice, and predictions about the conflicts between the North and the South. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, United States, Franklin County, Augusta County, Dred Scott, Fort Sumter, John Brown, Valley Project, Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court, Stephen Douglas, African Americans, Harper's Ferry, Deep South, Founding Fathers, North Carolina, Sack of Lawrence New!
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South Carolina, United States, Franklin County, Augusta County, Dred Scott, Fort Sumter, John Brown, Valley Project, Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court, Stephen Douglas, African Americans, Harper's Ferry, Deep South, Founding Fathers, North Carolina, Sack of Lawrence New!
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- Andrew Jackson (American statesmen series) by William Graham Sumner on page 50
- The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers in Back Matter
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 83
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