{"id":543,"date":"2009-10-13T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:48:29","slug":"impact-and-development-of-railroads-in-the-north-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/13\/impact-and-development-of-railroads-in-the-north-and-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact and Development of Railroads in the North and South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-544\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/valleyshadow-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"The Valley of the Shadow\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/valleyshadow-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/valleyshadow.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though previously mentioned in another <a href=\"..\/?p=535\">post<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/valley.lib.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Valley of the Shadow Project<\/a> has a wide range of primary sources from newspapers, maps, letters, and statistics all available for use in the 7-12 classroom. Broken up chronologically into three periods, the Project archives two communities (Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania) between the years of 1859 and 1870. A particularly good lesson plan by Alice Carter compares the impact and the development of the railroads in both counties using various articles from historical newspapers. The lesson provides a teacher with preselected articles, however, one may choose to either find newspaper accounts that reflect individual class interests or allow students to search for their own, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/valley.lib.virginia.edu\/news-topics\/eve\" target=\"_blank\">newspaper indexes<\/a>. One special note: teachers could extend the lesson and explore the impact of railroads during reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though previously mentioned in another post, the The Valley of the Shadow Project has a wide range of primary sources from newspapers, maps, letters, and statistics all available for use in the 7-12 classroom. Broken up chronologically into three periods, the Project archives two communities (Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania) between the years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171,82,172,12],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","category-lesson-plans","category-letters-diaries","category-maps","tag-business-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}