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NEH Awards Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to VCDH for Development of "Jefferson's Travels HistoryBrowser"
The National Endowment for the Humanities has selected VCDH for a major digital humanities grant award under its We the People program, which "encourages and strengthens the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture."
This month, NEH announced that VCDH will receive a $49,827 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for "Jefferson's Travels: A Digital Journey Using the HistoryBrowser." The award will fund development of an interactive web-based tool to integrate primary documents, dynamic maps, and related information in the study of history, with a particular focus on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. A demonstration, sample projects, and more information about the tool (including "An Historian's View of the HistoryBrowser") can be found at the following address: http://jeffersonstravels.org/.
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VCDH Launches Media Resource Site for Civil Rights Documentary
The Virginia Center for Digital History has launched a media resource site for Rising Up: Virginia's Civil Rights Movement, a U.Va. student-made documentary film airing this month on PBS stations in Virginia and across the nation.
The film broadly covers the South, but concentrates on Virginia and follows major events with close, personal stories, including: Samuel W. Tucker's 1939 library sit-in, Irene Morgan's 1946 busing case before the Supreme Court, the school desegregation crisis in 1958-59, the 1960 sit-ins, the violence of Danville, Va. and Birmingham, Ala. in 1963, and the resurgence of black voting and politics in 1965.
Upcoming VCDH Events
EVENT: "Using Digital Technology to Teach Three Perspectives of the Civil War"
WHAT: Summer Teacher Institute, "The Virginia Experiment" Teaching American History grant project with Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, Greene County, Madison County, and Orange County Public Schools
WHEN: June 18-20, 2008
WHERE: American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar
MORE INFO: Virginia Experiment
EVENT: "The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Citizenship"
WHAT: Summer Teacher Institute, "The Virginia Experiment" Teaching American History grant project with Albemarle County, Charlottesville City, Greene County, Madison County, and Orange County Public Schools
WHEN: June 23-27, 2008
WHERE: Center for the Constitution, Montpelier
MORE INFO: Virginia Experiment
