The Virginia Center for Digital History promotes the study of American history and culture, and the teaching of both subjects in schools.  Collections include http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/" title="The Valley of the Shadow Digital Archive">The Valley Project which details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's raid through the era of Reconstruction; http://www.virtualjamestown.org/" title="The Virtual Jamestown Archive">The Virtual Jamestown Archive which is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment"; http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/" title="Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970">Television News of the Civil Rights Era aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to teachers and students; http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilwar/" title="Tredegar Educational Companion">ACWC: Educational Web Companion which serves as an interactive teaching tool that complements the student and teacher experience at the http://www.tredegar.org/" title="The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar">The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and more.