Monday, August 31, 2009

The Oxford American, the Southern Magazine of Good Writing surveyed 134 Southern writers to ask them to name the best Southern novels.

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I'm not sure what parameters were used to define Southern writers, or Southern novels, but there's no call for nit-picking. Here a...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

I'm back with my brood from 9 days of camping atop the Medicine Lake Shield Volcano

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—the largest and probably least known volcano in all of the Cascade range (least known because shield volcanoes do not conform to the class...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Melancholy, Scot and Robin, The Who, President's Wall, Brave Ulysses

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MELANCHOLY This is the painting that hangs over my computer (my poor digital photograph does not do it justice). I enjoy staring at in it...
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Sunday, August 02, 2009

A final comment about LSU Press's bacon being pulled out of the fire, at least momentarily. . .

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I should have mentioned, given my own experience, that the "good news" about university press's surviving rounds of severe co...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

good news update to yesterday's post. . .LSU Press lives to publish

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Apparently I got in on this story right at the tail end of the two-month period of uncertainty over the Press's fate. Prompted by bibli...
Friday, July 17, 2009

"I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman."

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"In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labo...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Kenneth M. Stampp, R.I.P.

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another giant in the field passes C elebrated Historian Altered Understanding of Slavery By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer ...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

introducing Woodbury Historical Tours

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Lee's Retreat, and the Surrender at Appomattox August 7 and 8, with Ron Wilson and Patrick Schroeder 2 days of tours, includes lunc...
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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Hoodistas go off the deep end

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I noticed in the last issue of Civil War News that a group of John Bell Hood worshipers, the John Bell Hood Historical Society, actually...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

A brief follow-up to the query posted here last Saturday

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-- whether our 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, visited California suffragette Sa rah Wallis's (Mayfield, now Palo Alto) farm in 1877: ...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

"worry-ye-not, fans of ponchos, big hats and spitting, 2009 just might be your year"

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At last, a FPS game featuring Confederate deserters who head off to defend their home in Georgia and end up being chased through the greate...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Did President Grant really visit Palo Alto in 1877?

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or is it similar to claims that "Washington slept here"? I went for a walk in the neighborhood the other night, specifically to...
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Dead on June 25th

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NEWSPAPERS RACE TO REPORT THE SHOCKING STORY Before Wolf Blitzer was interviewing holograms , before news apps for the iPhone, before Tw...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Seven Civil War Stories You Didn't Learn in High School"

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Seeing the headline of this Wall Street Journal article piqued my interest. I was hoping to find some new tidbit, some edgy new interpr...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Putting one's money where one's mouth is. . .

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Ed Bearss, left, and Brian Pohanka (photo by Rudy Perini) On this day, four years ago, we lost one of the best and most devoted histo...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Map Lovers Rejoice

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The newly revamped website for The Civil War Preservation Trust has a beautiful, all-in-one map page , featuring their outstanding topo ma...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Way down in Mississippi / where the pine trees grow / deep in Jones County / where the leaf river flows

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In May of 2008 I posted the transcript of a Q&A I conducted with Victoria Bynum, regarding her fascinating book, The Free State of Jone...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Making of the Revised Edition of Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide

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Civil War blogging doesn't get any better than the recent serial entries by Mark Grimsley (at Civil Warriors ) on the intriguing proces...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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David Herbert Donald, 1920–2009 "Professor Donald taught that truth comes before showmanship. Without theorizing or bloviating, and sim...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

On this day, 144 years ago. . .

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I swam about four miles and came to an island covered with timber. I climbed a tree, and the water surrounding it was about ten feet deep...