THE ENTIRE COLLECTION

TOPICS RIPE FOR Further Research and PUBLICATIONS

•  A book on The Life and Times of Thomas Jackson.
  Resources for Support: The first and most obvious opportunity is for some junior academic to use this extensive collection of primary resources to write a book to do justice to this important collection. On the face of it, all the work of assembling sources has been done leading to a prime opportunity to edit all this material into a book that could well be a ticket to achieving tenure.
• Girls’ Obsequious Boarding School Life in 1830s.
  Resources for Support: The collection contains 19 long and dutiful letters to the parents of a young girl living away from school in a boarding school. They show in detail the preoccupations and expectations of a “good education” for girls at a time when were rarely educated. see Elizabeth Slater in the family letters.
• The changes in Northern cities when Lee’s forces entered Pennsylvania in 1863.
• The scam of selling Northern sympathizers coded signs to protect them when Confederate forces.
• Rope making: Ancient tools that changed the way the world works.