Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Happy Birthday, General Grant

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"I was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio." - - from Ulysses S. Grant ; Memoirs and Se...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Un moment s'il vous plaît

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while I close my eyes and gently rub my stomach. I wish to pause long enough to recall a week's worth of delicious meals. There was a s...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Nice try, governor. . .

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Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek , in an Op-Ed piece for the Washington Post, "Southern Discomfort," responds: As the sesquicent...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Heading out to Where to Where the Civil War Happened

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Over the weekend I signed up prolific Civil War author Eric Wittenberg to do two days of guided tours in one of his areas of expertise, t...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Who Do You Think You Are?

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My wife and I have been watching installments of "Who Do You Think You Are" on NBC on Friday evenings. It's fair to say its mu...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

The Forgotten Civil War

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Important Things with Demetri Martin Thursday, 12:30am / 11:30c 2 (Part 2) - The Forgotten Civil War www.comedycentral.com Joke of the...
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Monday, March 08, 2010

ANSWERS to Google Earth Quiz No. 3. . .

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Here are the ANSWERS to the latest Google Earth quiz. If you want to take the quiz FIRST, then click here and start identifying the photog...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Google Earth Quiz Number Three

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Faithful readers of this blog — and I do you mean you, Luke — will recall the first two Google Earth quizes I offered up as a little diversi...
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It's not too late to join us in the Big Easy

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for the 14th Annual Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference, April 15-18, 2010. This year we're enjoying a rare urban sojourn, but wil...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Here's another enticing sale from another venerable university press

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with a first-class Civil War list. I can think of half a dozen IU Press titles off the top of my head that will be welcome on your bookshel...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Good deals at LSU Press

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LSU Press is offering 35% off all of their titles ordered through the web site from now until the end of the year. That's hard to beat...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

eventually, you've got to go to the places where it happened

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I've got a bunch of fun tours set up so far for 2010: a couple in Gettysburg (regular tour, and one "Unseen" tour, looking at...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Prologue—the best history magazine you've never heard of. . .

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Well, of course I don't mean that you haven't heard of it. If you need guidance accessing the treasure trove of materials archived ...
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Monday, December 07, 2009

These are a few of my favorite graves. . .

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(an occasional installment) Most students of the American Civil War have read at least cursory accounts of the celebrated exploits of th...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

The American Thanksgiving holiday

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was formally established during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and was first observed the week following Lincoln's dedication o...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Corroboration is everything. . .

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When 8-year old George Patten's friends did not believe he had met Abraham Lincoln, he was able — through his teacher — to obtain a han...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Veterans Day

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World War I -- known at the time as “The Great War” -- officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in theP...
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