Venturing into the civil war, virtually: A review

Journal of American History

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 145-151

  Kornblith, Gary J ^a,b  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Electronic Oberlin Group's   (United States)

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EID: 33751149315     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2674922     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. "Valley of the Shadow Awards and Recognition," in The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War 〈http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/award.html〉 (Jan. 1, 2001);
2. Jeffrey R. Young, "A Historian Presents the Civil War, Online and Unfiltered by Historians," New York Times on the Web: Archives, June 29, 2000 〈http://nytimes.qpass.com/qpass-archives?QProd=1&QIID=db365DOC 546521&NYTID=&Srch=getdoc+allyears2- qpass+!db!+!doc!+10+wAAA+Edward%20Ayers〉 (Jan. 1, 2001);
3. Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig, "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web," Journal of American History, 84 (June 1997), 146;
4. The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College 〈http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/cwi/lincoln_prize/〉 (Feb. 25, 2001). The Valley Web site went live in 1994. Edward L. Ayers to Gary J. Kornblith, e-mail, Jan. 15, 2001 (in Gary J. Kornblith's possession).
5. Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (New York, 1992).
6. On the history of the project, see "Valley of the Shadow Project Background and Staff," Aug. 2000, Valley of the Shadow 〈http:// jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/background.html〉 (Jan. 1, 2001);
7. Christopher Shea, "Taking Aim at the 'Ken Burns' View of the Civil War," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 1998 〈http://chronicle.com/ data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-28.dir/28a01601.htm〉 (Dec. 30, 2000);
8. Amy Virshup, "Pixeling Dixie," Wired, 6 (May 1998) 〈http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.05/ayers〉 (Dec. 30, 2000);
9. William G. Thomas III, "In the Valley of the Shadow: Communities and History in the American Civil War," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 106 (Summer 1998), 301-18.
10. Ayers to Kornblith, e-mail, Jan. 15, 2001 (in Kornblith's possession).
11. William G. Thomas III to Kornblith, e-mail, Jan. 12, 2001, ibid.
12. Virshup, "Pixeling Dixie."
13. Examples of stale passages include "The first CD-ROM, on the coming of the war, will be released in the fall of 2000" 〈http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html〉 (Jan. 9, 2001);
14. "This window will report the status of each part of the Valley project Civil War archive to give you an exact account of how close to completion we are in each area. Date: January 1999" 〈http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/ statuswindow.html〉 (Jan. 9, 2001);
15. and "Most of the 162 claims filed by residents of Augusta County, including the 35 that were actually approved, will be accessible from this page by September 2000" 〈http:// jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/claims3.html〉 (Jan. 9, 2001).
16. Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War: The Eve of War (New York, 2000), book and CD-ROM.
17. Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War: The Eve of War Ibid., 30.
18. Edward L. Ayers and Anne S. Rubin, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War: The Eve of War Ibid., 35.
19. James M. McPherson has questioned Ayers's choice of communities. See Shea, "Taking Aim at the 'Ken Burns' View of the Civil War";
20. and Young, "Historian Presents the Civil War."
21. For a comparison of two different counties in the same two states, see John Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (New York, 2000).
22. George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Baltimore, 1997), 64-65;
23. Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (New York, 1997), 161-62.
24. Edward L. Ayers, "The Pasts and Futures of Digital History," 1999 〈http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/ PastsFutures.html〉 (Nov. 29, 2000).
25. Carl Becker, "Everyman His Own Historian," American Historical Review, 37 (Jan. 1932), 234.