Monday, May 17, 2010

Tommy Lee Jones: "Am I dead?" John Bell Hood: "You don't look like it to me"

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Certainly Hood saw enough dead men to answer that question correctly. Back in 1994 I picked up a copy of James Lee Burke's In the Ele...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

"Making the Civil War Strange Again"

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The current issue of Prologue (Spring 2010, Vol. 42, No. 1) has a brief article by Bruce Bustard, curator of the new Civil War exhibit at ...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Some photos from the Civil War Forum's visit to New Orleans in April, 2010

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(click to enlarge): This first one is from the Army of Tennessee tomb at Metairie Cemetery. I'm convinced this soldier is the same one...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Doonesbury takes on Virginia's Confederate History Month

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It's gratifying to see that Gary Trudeau has turned his attention to another target rich environment. The Confederate History Month them...
Monday, May 03, 2010

"Discovering the Civil War,"

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a brand new exhibit, opened at the National Archives last Friday, and by all accounts is an important and substantive presentation. At the ...

I was reading Drew Wagenhoffer's superb blog this morning, as is my wont

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Suddenly it dawned on me. We need to declare a moratorium on Civil War books with "Thunder" in the title, unless the subject of t...
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Saturday, May 01, 2010

More on Who Do You Think You Are?

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About a month ago I posted a little entry on the episode of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are featuring Matthew Broderick , who made a fas...
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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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