As a long-time Virginian AND long-time user of the wonderful on-line resources of Virginia History brought to us by the Library of Virginia, I must call your attention to an outstanding history site that is NOT Virginia. The saving grace is that it is at least in the right part of the country -- Georgia. If you are interested in Civil War History, and love to wallow in maps, go to: www.civilwar.gatech.edu First you will find color maps of the US with a gaggle of different plots.... %Population Change 1860-1870, Number of Slaves per Square Mile, Manufacturing, Farming, etc. But the Battlefield part is what grabbed me. Bill Drummond has produced three-D maps of a few battles, including Virginia's own Chancellorsville. He is working on animated battle development for the web. Simply Awesome!!! Much of his on-the-ground work is done with GPS, and pictures of Atlanta during The Battle Thereof and Today (The Georgia Tech Campus) really make for living history. I have used an inxpensive GPS from STAPLES ($89) to do some local mapping (not really history, since I was looking for land boundary markers) here in Clarke County, and foundd it an excellent tool. I projected the location of the marker, walked through the woods, and after a minute or two, found a stake within the +- 30-foot circle where my calculations said it should be. I think Drummond's use of technology to bring history alive is something woefully lacking here in the Old Dominion. Ed Ayers at UVA did some excellent work some years ago, but I don't think it was recognized nor the ideas picked up as they should have been. In my own area, the Valley of Virginia, my perception of Civil War Battlefield Preservation efforts is best described by Crock's Lost Patrol, which used to wander through the pages of the comics. "Outdated Solutions to Yesterday's Problems" comes to mind all to often in what we do to teach and share (Virginia) history. If this sounds like a challenge, well maybe it is. I would LOVE to build a list of Bookmarks to some outstanding sites which present Virginia History well. I'll start the list with Bill Drummond's. Randy Cabell To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html.