Sunday, December 28, 2008

This Just In: McPherson disrespects "Exclusive Civil War Jewelry"

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Back in June of 2007, I posted a note about American Heritage magazine's decision to do away with a print edition and publish all ...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Time Travel? or feverish hallucination. . . THE NADIR OF LINCOLN STATUARY

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Excerpt: Brian Lamb talks with Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America (2007). Read the full May 20, 20...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Slavery and Public History

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Apparently, and amazingly, it wasn’t until the 1990s that the National Park Service interpretation of Civil War sites included mention of th...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Saving a Civil War Legacy In Va.'s Shenandoah Valley

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from the Washington Post. . . Deal Protects Land On Which a Decisive Battle Was Fought By Nick Miroff Washington Post Staff Writer Fr...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Rare West Coast Civil War Structures Saved

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Approximately 2766 miles west of the spot where General John Reynolds was KIA on July 1, 1863, the Civil War installation named Camp Reynold...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

More Secesh Talk from the disgruntled citizens of Bigfoot country

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"We have nothing in common with you people down south. Nothing," said Randy Bashaw , manager of the Jefferson State Forest Produc...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

The best Antietam hike you've never taken

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(unless you were with Tom Clemens two weeks ago) Brian Downey over at Behind AotW has put together one of the most interesting campaign...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Virtual Hike to the Roulette Farm

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Ranger Mannie at Antietam continues to maintain one of the most interesting blogs around— My Year of Living Rangerously —a perfect marriage...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Odds and Sods — recent items that caught my eye

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The Fort Morgan Mystery Ship The last time this mystery ship was visible was after Hurricane Ivan hit the Alabama Gulf Coast on Sept...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

On this day, August 18, 1862

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At Redwood Ferry, Minnesota, nineteen soldiers of forty-six survived a Sioux ambush. Around Ft. Ridgely houses were in flames, victims were...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

John Y. Simon, R.I.P.

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The Grant project consumed him. . . . He worked on it every day, his wife said. “It was daily, it was weekends and it was most holidays,” s...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Civil War Sacrilege

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One of the most controversial Civil War books of the past 15 years is a thoughtful 1991 treatise on Robert E. Lee by the Indianapolis atto...
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