In the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, exhibits and events keep coming. Several days ago Edward Ayers addressed The Meaning of Bull Run and the Battle of Manassas and its place in the opening of the Civil War.
New digital tools, such as Geographic Information Systems, are allowing scholars to review what Robert E. Lee may have seen from the cupola at the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg. See Patricia Cohen’s new piece in the New York Times on Anne Knowles’ work.
And the Virginia Historical Society has mounted a major exhibition on the Civil War in Virginia. The exhibition makes an important statement in Richmond and advances current scholarship about the war in a way that any visitor can easily grasp. I reviewed the exhibition for Southern Spaces here . . .
Centrifugal Pump says:
Just viewed an application being used by a humanities college in Australia utilizing Google Earth and was just wondering if we could somehow see a complete historical event and geographical record of the Civil War presented on Google Earth.
August 18, 2011 — 1:04 pm
wthomas says:
There are a number of Google Earth apps developing for the Civil War. The two I know about are:
1. the University of Richmond’s Civil War browser
http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar/
2. our University of Nebraska Aurora Project–mapping the Richmond newspaper.
http://auroraproject.unl.edu (not quite finished but close)
Hope these help.
Will Thomas
August 19, 2011 — 8:22 am