Monday, January 30, 2012

New eBook Series from UNC Press

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The University of North Carolina Press -- one of the premier publishers of Civil War titles -- has launched a new digital inititive involvi...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

“I must post myself in Canuck airs,” said John Wilkes Booth

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     John Wilkes Booth Lived Here. . .        How Montreal fell for the Confederacy        by Matt Herzfeld          The McGill Daily ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Huntington Library acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes

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( Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times ) Olga Tsap...
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iTunesU and the National Portrait Gallery

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It's been over four years since I wrote this blog entry on iTunesU, and the free lectures available there from a growing number of inst...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Castle Pinkney back in (Sons of) Confederate Hands

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Castle Pinkney, on Charleston Harbor, was the first U.S. fort to fall into Confederate hands, and after passing through federal and then sta...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

(the erstwhile) Castle Pinckney National Monument

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 from National Geographic Daily News : Pictures: America's "Lost" National Parks (view the entire slide show here ) Castle Pi...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Custer's Last Stand on American Experience tonight (January 17, 2012)

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Hunley Unveiled

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The full article can be read here .  Visit the MSNBC Photo Blog on the Hunley here . 
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Why did so many Civil War battles take place inside of national parks?

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Nice try citizen, but the moon only looks small.  Michael Lynch, in his Past in the Present blog, has a post reflecting on the confusion...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Civil War Pre-Enactors

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From The Onion's Historical Archives :
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Peanut: A Civil War DOGumentary

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

147 Years Ago: A Christmas Gift for the President

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                   Savannah, Ga December 22, 1864                  Via Ft. Monroe, Va Dec 25. His Excellency     Prest. Lincoln.          ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Rodgers favors Generals Lee & Jackson, Glad the North Won the War

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Thanks to Terry Arliskas for sending in this link . Starting at second 54 of the video , she is one of the three Soldiers Aid Society ladies...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

"Why do so few blacks study the Civil War?"

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More from The Atlantic's new Civil War issue. . . an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates Members of Company E, Fourth U.S. Colored Infan...
Monday, December 05, 2011

"How Newt's New Novel Plays Politics With the Past"

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Congratulations to Kevin Levin, whose book review of Newt Gingrich's latest novel appears in the new, Civil War-themed issue of The Atl...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

The generosity of Brian Pohanka

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Thanks to Eric Wittenberg over at Rantings of a Civil War Historian for bringing this interview with Civil War historian Brian Pohanka to ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Civil War Lives, by The Huntington

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Huntington Botanical Japanese Garden The Huntington Library in San Marino (think Pasadena), besides being in a spectacular setting, is o...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Visit to Antietam Battlefield, 7 April 1963

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Silent motion picture footage of President John F. Kennedy's visit to the Antietam National Battlefield site, Sharpsburg, Maryland. Pre...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

2012 Civil War Tours

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Click to Enlarge Ad coming out in the December issue of The Civil War Monitor (vol. 1, no. 2)
Saturday, October 15, 2011

"Army museum's morbid oddities resettled in Maryland" (from the Associated Press)

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read the full article here . This undated handout photo provided by the National Museum of Health and Medicine shows the bullet that kil...