Monday, February 23, 2015

The Cause of All Nations: an International History of the American Civil War

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Every now and then, certain Civil War devotees need a stinging slap across the face to pull us out of the narrow-focus trance of battle st...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

San Francisco National Cemetery

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The San Francisco National Cemetery in the old Presidio, the first West Coast burial ground in the national cemetery system, is a stunnin...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Abraham Lincoln, online and searchable

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Thanks to the Abraham Lincoln Association
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Harry Willcox Pfanz, 1922-2015, wrote the essential Gettysburg trilogy

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Historian Harry Pfanz made arguably the greatest contribution to the literature on the greatest battle of the American Civil War, and I was ...
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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