Sunday, June 29, 2014

These 1861 Photos Helped Convince Abraham Lincoln to Preserve Yosemite for the Public

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

"In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and churches still pretend the war wasn't about slavery"

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From Salon.com: The Southern version of history also prevailed for decades at Civil War battle sites, thanks to the fact that Congress ap...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Dressing up like a rebel is not enough. You need to do your homework.

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What’s with Confederate reenactors and the matter-of-fact denial of slavery’s central role in bringing about the American Civil War? Not ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Five best books on the Steamboat Sultana, and America's greatest maritime disaster

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Gene Salecker at Vicksburg's Sultana mural My wife and I visited Vicksburg last month for the annual meeting of the Association of...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

"I was always careful after that about joking with Johnnies"

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Recent spasms of old-school racism – L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s bizarre recordings, and the musings of freeloading anarchis...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

150 Years Ago -- reaching the tipping point

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Already by May 11, 1864, those of us looking back in hindsight can see the fortunes of war tipping inexorably toward Union arms. Gene...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

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Hunley finally ready to reveal itself The Post and Courier by Brian Hicks Today, scientists at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center...
Friday, April 18, 2014

18th Civil War Forum Conference (April 4-5, 2014) -- Ball's Bluff and Monocacy (Early's 1864 raid)

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Fort Stevens, where Lincoln was almost shot. On the left, R. Keith Young, former Commander of the sub U.S.S. Silversides, and right, hist...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Police blotter on the night Lincoln was killed

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This Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department logbook for the night of April 14, 1865 records the news of the Lincoln assassinat...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Maryland man may have found two lost or forgotten photos of Lincoln’s funeral procession

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From the Washington Post. . . Mathew Brady/The National Archives -  This quad photograph is believed to show President Abraham Lincoln...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Indiana University Press book sale

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Good deals on some good books.  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/
Monday, February 17, 2014

150 years ago: Hunley sinks the Housatonic

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(CNN) -- Born and built amid gray-cloaked secrecy during the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley — the first submarine to sink an enem...
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Ball's Bluff and Monocacy -- 18th Civil War Forum Reunion

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18th Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference Ball’s Bluff, and Monocacy (with a side trip to Antietam) Leesburg, Virginia, April 3-6, 201...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

‘History of the Slave South’ Online Course Taught by Penn’s Stephanie McCurry Starts Jan. 20

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[press release] In the world of the Internet, slavery and the American Civil War are explosive topics of debate, so Stephanie McCurry ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Excerpt from Smithsonian's, "Last of the Blue and Gray"

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The last veteran who said he fought for the Union was Albert Woolson; Walter Williams said he was the last Confederate. One of them ind...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Travelogue: Battle of Apache Pass

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In September I attended the 34th Annual Order of the Indian Wars Assembly in Tucson—“On the Trail of Geronimo"—for a few days of ...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan slept here. Joe Hooker and Kit Carson too. . . my kids are unimpressed

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The operative phrase is, "according to local tradition." But it could have happened. Blue Wing Inn, across the street from t...