Friday, January 23, 2015

American Civil War exhibit at the National Library of Scotland

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Deed of sale of slave-woman and child, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1829. [NLS shelfmark: H.S.632 (3)] Yankee cries and Rebel yell...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

the Rebel Yell

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Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings Deep in the collections of the Library of Congress are ghostly images and ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Largest mass execution in U.S. history — December 26

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December 26, 1862 — Mankato, Minnesota (Library of Congress) From This American Life. . . Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Real Housewives of Gettysburg

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Hat tip to Dana Shoaf, and to The Gettysburg Compiler. Meg Sutter ’16  and  Megan McNish ’16  report from Gettysburg College’s Special C...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Hard times in the Cradle of Secession. . .

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The Keeping Room debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival three months ago. It is " a film that tells the story of 3 Sout...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Horwitz on Sand Creek: 150 years ago

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The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public m...
Monday, November 24, 2014

American Civil War. . . some recent news items

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Children of Civil War Veterans Still Walk Among Us 150 Years After the War — To their living sons and daughters, the soldiers in blue and...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

November 19: Lincoln at Gettysburg

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In 1952, the chief of the Still Photo section at the National Archives, Josephine Cobb, discovered a glass plate negative taken by Mathew ...

Harvest the History: Brian Pohanka

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

150 Years Ago, November 11 — President Lincoln reveals mystery document

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NOVEMBER 11, 1864 Cabinet meets.  President gives John Hay sealed document and asks him to open it.  Cabinet members learn contents for ...
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Friday, November 07, 2014

The Free State of Jones

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With the recent news that Matthew McConaughey signed on to play the role of Newton Knight in a film version of The Free State of Jones, ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

The California Brigade (Civil War Trust article)

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In 1913, veterans of the California Regiment returned to the angle where they fought off the approaching Confederates of Pickett's C...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Internet Research – Proceed with Caution

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  Did Iowa send more troops into Union armies, per capita, than any other state? I have no idea. Internet research is becoming more a...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

$1.99 Kindle download: 37 historians discuss the Civil War

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This first volume in the series contains transcripts of 37 Question and Answer sessions conducted over many years in the Civil War Forum ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress has made three more Civil War-related collections available online (including Clara Barton and Charles Reed)

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From Michelle Krowl at the Library of Congress:  I wanted to let you know about three Civil War-related collections in the Manuscript Divi...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Kansas City Southern

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. . . heading east out of Vicksburg across the Big Black River (April 2014). I was singing that old Gene Clark tune in my head for the rest ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Battle of Atlanta -- 150 years ago (yesterday)

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One of a string of battles in Sherman's Campaign for Atlanta, this July 22, 1864 clash is the only one called the Battle of Atlanta. The...
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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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