A collection of projects for an advanced digital seminar, the work featured here represents some of the best student research at MSU for the spring semester of 2015.  While the projects themselves cover a wide array of topics and questions, they all are united by their focus on the American Civil War. Created as a major capstone study for HST 304, Dr. Thomas Summerhill instructed students to dig into many of the unanswered questions concerning the political, geographic, and cultural aspects of the conflict. What they found, below, was in many cases rather surprising…