Friday, May 25, 2018

summer ad for Rosebud and Little Bighorn excursion

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Look for this ad in an upcoming issue of Wild West magazine, and in various digital venues. See also the new website for WHT. 
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Bruce Catton

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Photos from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Bruce Catton Papers. Text from New York Times obituary , August 29, 1978 ...
Monday, April 09, 2018

Charles P. Roland turns 100

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Happy Birthday to Charles P. Roland, who wrote — in my opinion — the best short , single-volume history of the Civil War: An American Iliad:...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

The Power of History (Bay Area Book Festival)

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There's an interesting American History presence at this April's Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. Wish I could be there for th...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Rosebud and Little Bighorn battlefield tours (October 2018)

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I'm very happy to announce a new tour happening in October, covering the Battles of the Rosebud, and Little Bighorn, with some essential...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Shiloh battlefield tour, April 4-6, 2018

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Sunday, November 12, 2017

two new GRANT books hot off the presses

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It was a big summer and fall for the nation's 18th president. . . Click on the image to go to the publisher's site: Hardcover...
Saturday, November 04, 2017

US Army 29th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve patch with a blue and gray monad

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========== Shoulder sleeve insignia of the United States Army 29th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Blue and Gray Division, based ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

General Grant at his new City Point headquarters

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From a recent post on one of my favorite Facebook pages :  "Wow, I have long liked this detail with General Grant at right at h...
Friday, October 20, 2017

The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama"

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The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama" Édouard Manet, 1864 Manet's first known sea...
Monday, October 16, 2017

it was Georgia's house, not Jennie Wade's

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Georgia Wade McClellan In my last post, I shined a light on my Iowa hometown's Abraham Lincoln connection -- the land grant he rece...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

Abe Lincoln (Never) Slept Here . . .

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. . . but he did own the land. Last month I journeyed to Iowa for a high school reunion, and I had a checklist of items I wanted to see—t...
Saturday, October 07, 2017

Charlie, the horse who carried the dispatch from General Slocum to General Sherman

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Title:  [Charlie, the horse who carried the dispatch from General Slocum to General Sherman announcing the surrender of Atlanta, Georgia]...
Monday, October 02, 2017

First fully annotated version of Grant's memoirs

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Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library historians, from left to right, Louie P. Gallo, John F. Marszalek and David S. Nolen, this month wil...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Adolph Metzner Civil War Drawings (LoC)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BLOG From a guest post by Julie Stoner, a reference librarian in the Geography and Map Division. It was first publish...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Southern Comfort -- McPherson in NYRB (2001)

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Revisiting a New York Review of Books essay from the April 12, 2001 issue. . .
Friday, August 11, 2017

"Amiable Scoundrel" -- author interview (PhillyVoice)

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Simon Cameron, who served as secretary of war from March 1861 to January 1862. He was well-known as a party-machine Democrat in Pennsyl...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Retouching History: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph [fake news, Civil War style]

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Figure 1. Studio photograph taken in Philadelphia, probably in early 1864. The handwritten numbers, “1895 x 1895” in reverse in the upp...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Fort Sumter, South Carolina (watercolor)

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Fort Sumter, South Carolina by Thomas Kennet-Were, 1869 [University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center]
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Watercolors of Civil War ironclads by Ens. D. M. N. Stouffer, ca. 1864-65. (David Dixon Porter Papers)

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The vessels shown here were all part of the Mississippi Squadron under the command of Adm. David Dixon Porter (1813-1891). The squadron ...