Wednesday, January 26, 2011

This just in (from Civil War Preservation Trust)

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WALMART DROPS WILDERNESS PLAN In an unexpected development on the day that a trial was scheduled to begin in the case, Walmart announced ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Tarnished Reputations

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Five years ago, I posted a blog entry entitled “Eagles, Scalpels, Reputations – all tarnished,” as a clever way to discuss three of Dr. Th...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Oldest living African-American dies at 113

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Mississippi Winn . . .Winn was one of two known people left in the United States whose parents both were almost certainly born into slav...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Look what I saw on Facebook

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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Ben McCulloch

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Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, McCulloch's Division, Army of the West This song by Steve Earle is my favorite Civil War-the...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

The United States Constitution: Read it and Weep

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The problem with the Tea Party's new Constitution fetish is that it's hopelessly selective. As Robert Parry notes, the folks who wil...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Don't Spin the Civil War

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. . .and another timely essay, for good measure.  This one from Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr., well worth a read. Full articl...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

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This Jan. 14, 2009 image shows a Civil War bottle with a message that was tucked inside at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Timely essays on secession and the War of Southern Aggression

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States' Rights, but to What? BY PAUL FINKELMAN ...for South Carolina, slavery and states’ rights were not mutually exclusive; in fact, t...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Civil War blogging at its best

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I was thinking of doing a year-end roundup of Civil War blogs, mainly as a vehicle for highlighting the five or ten favorites to which I am ...
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Shouldn't the Culbertson Guidon from the Little Bighorn be in the Smithsonian?

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It's said to be worth $2 to $5 million, but an upcoming Sotheby's auction will tell the tale.  Would that this ragged flag could re...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Now that's authentic!

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Arkansas celebrates the Civil War sesquicentenary by electing an actual Confederate.  League of the South member, Loy Mauch — who said tha...

When DuPont became Grant

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  How many times has a street named for one prominent military figure been renamed in favor of another who fought for the same cause? Probab...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Interesting article: The Civil War at 150

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Certainly, Lincoln's election in 1860 precipitated secession, which resulted in war, and the sesquicentennial of that event, on Novembe...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

The Washington Post goes whole hog on the sesquicentenary

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Saturday, November 06, 2010

World's worst sculptor dies at age 96

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Controversial jack-of-all-trades , slavery apologist and lousy sculptor, Jack Kershaw, passed away on September 7. He was best known as a...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

There's an App for that. . .

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This looks pretty cool. Certainly the price is right (.99 cents). Civil War Preservation Trust has released its first virtual battlefield g...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. . ."

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GREAT NEWS:   The Civil War Preservation Trust is proud to announce a new campaign to save 49 acres at the center of the Wilderness Bat...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The insidiousness of misinformation

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At least they didn't put black Confederates on the cover. What an embarrassment. A public school textbook for 4th graders in Virginia p...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

700 ambrotypes and tintypes donated to the Library of Congress

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Thanks to a Virginia collector, Tom Liljenquist of McLean, we'll all soon have access to a painstakingly gathered collection of 700 Civ...