Friday, August 26, 2011

Yes Virginia, you can produce regular, lengthy blog entries and still find time to write a book

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There are too many Civil War books to keep up with (or catch up with) these days, so one has to be fairly discerning about how to fill those...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Georgia Adds Swastika, Middle Finger To State Flag

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I don't know how I missed this controversial story from the late 1990s. It must have gotten lost in a busy news cycle. [News in Phot...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Ed Bearss' favorite Civil War books

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No, Ed did not mention a book on Glorieta Pass in his top five, but I'll bet you he read this one, and thought highly of it. On his tour...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

The Civil War Documentary - A Documentary

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"We were about one hour into the Civil War, we all figured things were going pretty well, but naturally we wondered how much longer it ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Hunley is Upright

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"The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hul...
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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