We offer this guide as a supplement to the DOE's Teacher Resource Guide, as a review of the standards and their implications for teaching history, and as an attempt to help teachers apply the vast resources of the Web to their standards-based curriculum. We plan to put online a complete edition of the UVA Multimedia Resource Guide in the 2001-2002 academic year. The online edition of the UVA Multimedia Resource Guide will cover all standards in 11th-grade Virginia and U.S. history and all subsections to the standards. All standards and subsections will have a contextual essay, a list of recommended readings, and an exhibit of multimedia resources from the University of Virginia and other high-quality library and university sites.

These lesson plans draw on material from the Valley of the Shadow: Two American Communities in the Civil War and Virtual Jamestown and are designed to help teachers implement the new Virginia Standards of Learning and the National History Standards. They were developed in partnership with the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education.

Students will search the Valley of the Shadow Archive to write papers on subjects such as Women in the Civil War, Irish and German Immigrant Communities, and Slaveholding in Augusta County, Virginia.