The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War.

• The African American Soldier
• Attitudes about Slavery in a Northern Community on the Eve of the Civil War
• The Burning of Chambersburg
• Civil War Medicine
• Commemoration of the Gettysburg Battlefield: The Gettysburg Address
• Death and Dying in Two Mid-Nineteenth Century American Communities
• Financing the Confederacy's War Effort
• The Garber Family Letters: Recreating 19th-Century Family History
• German and Irish Immigrants in Antebellum America
• The Impact of Railroads on Two Antebellum Communities
• Mine Eyes have Seen...Union Soldiers in the South
• Occupations in the 1860s
• Resistance to African American Education during and after the Civil War
• Secession Crisis: In two Virginia Communities
• Southern Patriotism Before the Civil War
• Southern Support during the Civil War
• Substitution in the Civil War
• Using Maps to Uncover a Soldier's Life
• What Happened to Slaves when their Owners Died?
• What Was Life Like for the Civil War Soldier?
• White Southerners' Defense of Slavery
• Why Did the North Fight?
• Zeal for Teaching: Reconstruction in Port Royal South Carolina

Race and Place: African American Community History is a collaborative work with the Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at UVA. It includes material on slavery and emancipation, Reconstruction, and the era of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

• African American Life in Virginia in the Era of Jim Crow

Virtual Jamestown is a research-teaching-learning project to explore the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."

• Jamestown's Economy
• Jamestown Fort: Finding History
• The Jamestown Newsletter
• Jobs in Jamestown
• Language and Runaway Slave Ads
• Leadership in Jamestown
• Planning an Escape
• Runaway Indentured Servants
• State of Affairs Between the Native Americans and the European Settlers

The Dolley Madison Project provides a window onto the domestic, political, and social worlds of Dolley Madison and on the development of elite Washington, D.C. society in the early national period.

• Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
• Burning Washington: Dolley Madison's Historic Letter
• The Life of Dolley Madison