Friday, July 29, 2011

Mary's life didn't end when John was hanged

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Mary Brown with daughters Annie (left) and Sarah (right) in 1853, Vernon, New York (Library of Congress) John Brown's son, Salm...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The 9/11 of 1859

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Vivenne Flesher and Ward Schumaker Author Tony Horwitz wrote this NYT Op-Ed piece in December of 2009, on the subject of his forthcoming...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

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I extend a hearty thank-you to my history-major neice Susan for bringing this forthcoming Horwitz volume to my attention. First, let me say...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Google Earthing the Civil War

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Look at the neat things Andy Hall has done with Google Earth over at his consistently interesting Dead Confederates blog. Through "i...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The largest offensive ever mounted by a Confederate army. . .

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Historian Bobby Krick addresses members of the CompuServe Civil War Forum at their 15th annual battlefield conference, April 2011 Yester...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Remembering Edwin Francis Jemison

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This portrait of Private Edwin Jemison is one of the most iconic images of the war. Though he was descended from two of the founding famili...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

"Everything you know about the Civil War is wrong. Almost."

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Based on Joan Walsh’s outstanding critique at Salon.com , I purchased the Kindle version of this book today. The prospects of a well resear...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Freakonomics: Why Does the South Still Commemorate the Civil War, But Not the North?

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Freakonomics fearlessly explains everything. It's tempting to say that the South commemorates the War more than the North because the So...

"Thanks a lot, Ken Burns"

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For all its appeal, however,   The Civil War   is a deeply misleading and reductive film that often loses historical reality in the mists of...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Over 4,000 Civil War graves identified in a Brooklyn cemetery

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Using the cemetery's own burial records, plus government, military and privately owned documents available online, Green-Wood's pro...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Solarium: A novella

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I just finished reading a pretty amazing short work of fiction called, "Solarium: A novella," by Josh Weil. It was published in th...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

the Wire, to Treme, to Lincoln Assassination?

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Steve Earle, May 20, 2001 at Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA Friday night I went to see Steve Earle promote his brand new first novel at a...
Friday, May 20, 2011

"I was wearing the name of Lewis Smith"

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Portrait of Dick Barnett and his wife, date unknown. (Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, RG 15) A fascinating article. . . ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Five Myths About Why the South Seceded

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ALEXANDER GARDNER/ AP -  A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner in Washington in August of 1863. Lies Across America...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"The Foolishness of Civil War Reenactors," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

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Though I'm a regular reader at Salon.com, I just learned of this article by visiting Andy Hall's excellent Dead Confederates blog....
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Monday, May 09, 2011

The Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina

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The people have spoken. Every year a dedicated contingent of long-time members of the Civil War Forum — along with a handful of welcome newc...
Friday, May 06, 2011

End of the line for Lincoln

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Paul Chinn / The Chronicle Dockworkers prepare to receive the Lincoln as it arrives at the Mare Island shipyard in Vallejo. ---------- ...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

How the "Lost Cause" poisoned our history books

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[from salon.com. . .] Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the Union Army and the 18th president of the United States, would have be...
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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...