Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Antietam Tour with Tom Clemens, May 2019

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Maryland monument with Dunker Church in background. Photo: NPS The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) Tour dates: May 2-5, 2019 HQ hot...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The Call of the Bugle

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Call of the Bugle, painted by J.K. Ralston. This oil painting shows Custer rallying the troops for the final defense of Last Stand Hill....
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

The Rock, and the Big Stick

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U.S.S. Iowa, 1951, with Alcatraz in the distance. [LIFE magazine archives]

Battlefield Tours: the Rosebud and the Little Bighorn

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​"On a hot June Sunday in 1876, hordes of painted Indian warriors—perhaps as many as 4,000—swarmed over a treeless Montana ridge risin...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Upcoming Tours . . . Little Bighorn, Antietam, Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico, the Apache Wars . . .

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our new website is up and running whtours.org Upcoming Tours: The Battles of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn October 16-20, 2018...
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...