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This message was sent from Georgia Magazine (http://uga.edu/gm/). Digitizing the past - Around the Arch June 2012 Issue UGA Libraries, in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, the Georgia Historical Society and the Board of Regents’ GALILEO virtual library initiative, is part of a new project to digitize more than 80,000 documents relating to the American Civil War. Funding for “America’s Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia” has been provided by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission and is enabling archivists to digitize 81,319 letters, diaries, military records, account books, poetry, photographs and maps that document the American Civil War. Manuscripts and visual materials are available only in their original format, and the project partners are among the leading research institutions in the Southeast for the study of the Civil War, with hundreds of researchers visiting their locales annually. As part of the two-year venture, a blog on the progress of the project will be available to scholars and the public. Access to the materials will be through websites at each institution. The digitized documents … Read full article at http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?/single/2012/06/1555/.