This project takes up the task of re-contextualizing Alexis de Tocqueville's famous political and cultural analysis of American democracy, and to construct a virtual American ca. 1831-32. The site now contains a virtual tour of America based on Tocqueville's itinerary, on his and his friend Beaumont's letters and journals, on contemporaneous accounts of other foreign visitors, and on a variety of examples of material culture of the period , mostly paintings and engravings. It also holds explorations of Womens' Place at the time, of attitudes toward race and color, towards religion, and towards everyday life.