Geography of Slavery

How to use the GOS Archive: Tom Costa discusses various aspects of the GOS Archives and suggests classroom uses of the site. Filmed Smr.2007

Valley of the Shadow

Ed Ayers talks to educators about the VOS project. Filmed Smr.2007

 

 

Archives

The Virginia Center for Digital History, (VCDH) provides a number of online archives which contain thousands of digitized resources to help teachers analyze and present the American Origins and its legacies within the classroom.

Virtual Jamestown

The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment.

Geography of Slavery (GOS)

The Geography of Slavery 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.

The Valley of the Shadow (VOS)

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that documents the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.