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Evaluating Contested Ground: Civil War Interpretation In The Shenandoah Valley, Kyle P. Rothemich
Evaluating Contested Ground: Civil War Interpretation In The Shenandoah Valley, Kyle P. Rothemich
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This research focuses on how three distinct Civil War sites in the Shenandoah Valley interpret the American Civil War. The Virginia Museum of the Civil War in New Market Virginia, the Visitor Center housed by the Kernstown Battlefield Association in Kernstown Virginia, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park information center in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Each of these three organizations is administered by a different governing body ranging from the National Park Service to the State of Virginia, and lies in the geographical and cultural region of the Shenandoah Valley. Research is based off; interviews conducted with interpretative managers at …