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Secession: Virginia and the Crisis of Union, 1861 is a collaborative project of the University of Richmond. It was built by an inter-departmental team of web designers, database experts, digital curators, digital humanists, and historians interested in bringing together the tools used to help run the university with the research and teaching at its core. The project explores a topic of broad scholarly and public interest as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War approaches: 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. The Proceedings of the Convention were transcribed at the time by correspondents from the Richmond Enquirer. These accounts were published daily by the newspaper, then reprinted across the state. In preparation for the Centennial of the Civil War, researchers at the Library of Virginia collected and edited these documents into a four-volume set, along with three volumes of ancillary documents, the Journal and Papers of the Convention. The Library of Virginia generously donated a complete set of these volumes to be used for this project.

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