Thursday, April 28, 2011

Was one of your ancestors lost on the U.S.S. Monitor?

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The skeleton to the left, victim “Monitor 2,” is shown by digital overlay where it was uncovered after the  photo of the first victim w...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The Civil War: 1861 (Forever)

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Get these nifty Civil War postage stamps (commemorating Ft. Sumter and First Bull Run) while they last. Avoid long lines and surly civil ser...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

"The Apostle of Liberty" and The Gipper

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Thomas Starr King Ronald Reagan under the rotunda For most of the 20th century, California was represented in the United States Capi...
Monday, April 18, 2011

1861: The Civil War Awakening

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Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform at Point Lookout, Tennessee. (Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress) ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Seven Days Travelogue, part two

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History is all explained by geography. — Robert Penn Warren Dateline: Princeton-by-the-Sea, California So this is what a blog post from ...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Seven Days Travelogue, part one

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[ CONFERENCE ] Day One -- twenty or twenty-five of us met up with author and researcher Chris Ferguson at the South Cherry Street en...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Kunta Kinte's worst nightmare

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Thanks to Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory for bringing this series of  collectibles to our attention. Buy the courthouse and get the R. E. ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

One of last 2 WWI veterans turns 110 in Australia

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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  The Associated Press Wednesday, March 2, 2011; 10:50 PM SYDNEY -- One of the last two known veterans of World War I c...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Tour of the Seven Days Battlefields

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The Seven Days Battles with Richmond National Battlefields Historian Robert E. L. Krick The 15th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference ...
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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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