Friday, March 31, 2006

Crescent City Gentrification

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Poolside slave quarters. And "beautiful" to boot. I took this photo in 1988 on my one and only visit to New Orleans, where my s...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

"The dead are heroes, the living are but men compelled to do the drudgery and suffer the privations incident to the thing called 'glorious war.'"

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—quote by Sam Watkins Photo: Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee Turns out our tour guide on Saturday has fit in a stop for ...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Tennessee, Tennessee / There ain't no place I'd rather be / Baby won't you carry me / Back to Tennessee

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"Tennessee Jed," words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia , copyright Ice Nine Publishing Old Glory is back in town. What...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Claude of the Turbervilles

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Saw mention of this article over at Kevin Levin's Civil War Memory site — perfect fodder for examining the "memory" of th...
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Monday, February 27, 2006

Hey, aren't you the guy who lost 1st Bull Run?

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[Photo by Wesley A. Leiser] I have periodically mulled over the idea of writing a biography of one or another lesser-known or less celebra...
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Friday, February 17, 2006

Please. Just give me the maps and no one gets hurt.

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Map: Spotsylvania Court House. This detail of a hand-drawn map shows the location of the Confederate line and the location of Union troops,...

Eagles, Scalpels, Reputations — all tarnished

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How unusual, these days, that an author or team of authors find a vein to mine that is so rich and undisturbed, the resulting scholarship ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Nashville. You can't ignore it.

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According to Neil Young in interviews here , and elsewhere, when recording the hymn-like final tune on his new album Prairie Wind — a song ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

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You can read regimental histories, campaign analysis, letters, diaries, and the Official Records till the end of time, but there's a ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Antebellum Island

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"Our 12 strangers must adapt to the altogether-unfamiliar territory of an island where the states and the people are guaranteed those ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

It’s the Story, Stupid

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("history has a plot") History is a story, after all, and so it’s no surprise that people enjoy history most when it's tol...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Montana's Confederate Dead

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Recently I've been revisiting James W. Loewen's, Lies Across America, What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (introduction here ) , and ...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Breathtaking Brevity, making a long story short

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[left, Charles P. Roland] Is a short story masterpiece harder to write than a good novel? You can certainly make a case, however arbit...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The Battles of Franklin, and Nashville

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(with a side trip to Stones River) PHOTO: Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer. Created/Published: 1864 December 16. Photograph ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Unit Histories, and other favorites, part 2

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More excerpted replies from the 1995 Civil War Regiments journal survey. John Hennessy Rebel Yell and Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Jou...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Historians Recall Favorite Unit Histories, pt. 1

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(ten years ago, or so) In 1995, Civil War Regiments quarterly surveyed a host of oft-published authors, historians, battlefield park rang...