Saturday, July 18, 2015

Causes of the Civil War (James Epperson)

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An internet classic. For nearly 20 years, Jim Epperson's  Causes of the Civil War site has been a go-to resource for interested student...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

James Loewen: "Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong."

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From today's Washington Post .
Friday, June 26, 2015

Gordon Rhea on the Confederacy's legacy. . .

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Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectu...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Drought exposes Civil War veteran's grave

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The broken headstone recently secured to a concrete slab marks the burial site of Civil War veteran Corporal John McBride on the dry lak...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

Civil War Faces at the Library of Congress

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Online offerings from the Library of Congress continue to expand at a rapid clip. No one has to know that much of the research for your new ...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Last Union prisoners leave Texas (150 years ago)

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Friday, May 08, 2015

Helena, Arkansas -- you can't get there from here

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I passed through Helena, Arkansas last month, and the odds are good that I won't visit there again in this lifetime, or any other. It do...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 1951-2015

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[from The Washington Post, By Matt Schudel April 16 at 7:53 PM -- family photo] “She could speak eloquently of complex matters to peopl...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Hannah Reynolds will never be remembered like Jennie Wade, but this is a start

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Jennie Wade, of course, is remembered and memorialized for being the only civilian casualty resulting directly from the Battle of Gettysburg...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Meanwhile, 150 years ago in a place other than Virginia. . .

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Visit the Fort Blakely page at the Civil War Trust for maps, articles, and other resources on the fighting at Blakely and Spanish Fort.  ...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

150 years ago -- The Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865

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Visit the Civil War Trust's Bentonville page for maps, articles, photo galleries, and interviews about  North Carolina's largest ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Remembering the senseless slaughter of the War Between the Butterflies

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Lincoln comments on his 2nd inaugural speech

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from Lincoln Day by Day, Lincoln writing to Thurlow Weed: Lincoln taking the oath, March 4, 1865, Harper's Weekly "Thank you ...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Racing Presidents visit the National Archives

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Abraham Lincoln contemplates a facsimile copy of the Emancipation Proclamation You can see the full gallery of photos of the Racing Pres...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads -- 150 years ago

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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, which intrepid members of the CompuServe Civil War Forum visite...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address -- March 4, 1865

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One of three photos of the event by Alexander Gardner "In a print made about 1920 from an original photograph by Alexander Gardne...
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 ...