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Civil War newspapers repository
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"The Untold Civil War"
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Civil War newspapers
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The AMERICAN CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPERS website launched in March, coinciding with the observance of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Under the supervision of William C. Davis, professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Science and director of programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech, graduate students have thoroughly indexed the site’s first journal, the Macon, Ga., Daily Telegraph for the period July 1860 to June 1865.
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"The Untold Civil War:
Exploring the Human Side of War"
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Focusing on the experiences of war often forgotten in textbooks, "The Untold Civil War" combines a vivid overview of the war's major events with stories of human drama. Written by James Robertson, Virginia Tech Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, the book offers a totally new perspective on the War Between the States, examining 132 previously untold stories that capture the lives of those subsisting in a country ripped in half.
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Essential Civil War Curriculum
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"Virginia in the Civil War"
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VCCWS launches
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A Sesquicentennial Project of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and the Department of History at Virginia Tech, the ESSENTIAL CIVIL WAR CURRICULUM is now available.
The page's content—which includes essays, bibliographies, and other resources on 400-plus topics constituting the basic knowledge that any serious student of the Civil War should possess—has been peer-reviewed by today's foremost Civil War historians.
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"Virginia in the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance," which aired on Blue Ridge PBS (WBRA, Channel 15), won two bronze Telly awards, which honor outstanding local and regional video productions from around the world.
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James I. Robertson Jr. honored
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The Disunion series
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June 8, 2011
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James "Bud" Robertson Jr., Alumni Distinguished Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the "Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus" title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
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Founded Nov. 1, 2010, the Disunion series from The New York Times revisits and reconsiders America's most perilous period using contemporary accounts, diaries, images, and historical assessments and analyses to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
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