“The project explores a topic of broad scholarly and public interest as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War approches: How did the decision to secede–and start the bloodiest conflict in US history–come about?
“Secession examines this question by bringing one important primary text, the Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, 1861 alongside a wealth of contextual information, including timelines, maps, political and demographic data, with tools to allow the user to link them all together.”