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Publication of Note | December 2019

Clifton Johnson, “Battleground Adventures in the Civil War” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915).

*Note in our March newsletter we promised that 2019 would be devoted to highlighting important works related to the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War era story…

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Civil War Institute Director Rendered Speechless By Donation

Philadelphia woman donates collection of Civil War documents to Shenandoah University

The Johnston family recently donated wonderful artifacts from Union Army Private Robert Bradbury, who fought in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, to SU’s McCormick Civil War…

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Publication Of Note | June 2019

Aldace F. Walker, “The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864” (Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1869). *Note in our March newsletter we promised…

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Artifact of the Quarter | June 2019

William W. Layton Collection, receipt from 1863. Throughout the course of MCWI’s 27 years, various items, including letters and other ephemera, have been donated to…

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Go Virtual at Battle of Cool Spring

Anniversary celebration highlights Civil War history through tours, augmented reality

Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute is commemorating the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Cool Spring with tours, lectures and the unveiling of an…

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One Artifact At A Time

Shenandoah University Students Serve As Co-authors of Artifact-Driven History of Winchester

A group of Shenandoah University history majors are set to be published authors this year for their work on a book commemorating the 275th anniversary…

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Publication of Note | March 2019

John Quincy Adams, “Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman” (Harrisburg, PA: Sieg, Printer and Stationer,…

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Artifact of the Quarter | March 2019

Built in 1840 the Frederick County Courthouse in Winchester, Virginia (now the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum operated by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation) is…

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Noyalas’ New Book Examines Race, Slavery & Emancipation

Work To Be Published By University Press of Florida

The Director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute Jonathan Noyalas ’01, M.A., has received a contract from University Press of Florida (UPF) for his…

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Artifact of the Quarter | December 2018

One of the ways the Civil War became tangible for those who experienced it from the home front was through newspapers and illustrations that appeared…

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