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Author Archives: Chris Mackowski
A Conversation with John Coski (conclusion)
Part six of six I’ve been talking with John Coski, historian at the American Civil War Museum and recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. As we wrap up our conversation today, … Continue reading
A Conversation with John Coski (part five)
Part five of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John might be best known to the public for his work on the history of the … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities
Tagged 13th Wisconsin, 17th Virginia, America's Civil War, American Civil War Museum, Civil Sar Monitor, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Douglas Southall Freeman, Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, James Thomas Petty, John Coski, Mike Musick, Museum of the Confederacy, Susie Harrison, Ted Savas, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Museum of History and Culture
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A Conversation with John Coski (part four)
Part four of six John Coski is the 2019 recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John worked as a historian at the Museum of the Confederacy before its recent evolution into the American Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Personalities
Tagged "Prince John" Magruder, American Civil War Museum, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Charleston shooting, Christy Coleman, Confederate Battle Flag, Conversation-with-John-Coski, John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy
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A Conversation with John Coski (part three)
Part three of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, recipient of ECW’s 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John works as a historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and, prior to … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged A Woman's War, American Civil War Museum, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Before Freedom Came, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Embattled Emblem, John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy, National Park Service, Ruth Ann Coski, The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson
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A Conversation with John Coski (part two)
Part two of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and recipient of ECW’s 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. In recounting his “origin story” yesterday, … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities
Tagged American Civil War Museum, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Baptized in Blood, Before Freedom Came, Berkeley Plantation, Charles Wilson, Confederate Memorial Literacy Society, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Hollins University, Jefferson Davis, John Coski, Lost Cause, Museum of the Confederacy, Ruth Ann Coski, Virginia Historical Society, White House of the Confederacy
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A Conversation with John Coski (part one)
Part one of six In August, ECW present its 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History to John Coski, historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond (and, prior to its merger, with the … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities
Tagged Civil Wargasm, College of William and Mary, Conversation-with-John-Coski, David Lilly, Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Francis Butler Simkins, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Collection, John Coski, National Park Service, Rob Hodge, Ruth Ann Coski, safety valve thesis, Tony Horwitz
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The Surprises in William Hoffman’s Photo
I’ve been working on Derek Maxfield’s upcoming ECWS book on the prison camp in Elmira New York, Hellmira, and I came across something fun while prepping the photos for layout. The photo in question: “Washington, D.C. Gen. William Hoffman, Commissary … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
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A Soldier’s View of Harper’s Ferry
Following the battle of Antietam, as the Army of the Potomac made its slow way northward, the Union II Corps found itself, on September 21, 1862, encamped atop Bolivar Heights near Harper’s Ferry. Lt. Josiah Favill of the 57th New … Continue reading
Ball’s Bluff National Cemetery
Way back in 2011, I had the privilege to walk the Ball’s Bluff battlefield with historian Jim Morgan and talk about his book on the battle, A Little Short On Boats, just then released. (You can read that interview here … Continue reading
Heyward Shepherd Memorialized (Sort Of)
On one hand, it’s fitting that a monument commemorates Heywood Shepherd. A night watchman at Harpers Ferry, Shepherd stumbled across John Brown’s raiders on the night of October 16, 1859. They called to Shepherd to surrender, but he refused, and … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments, Slavery
Tagged Herpers Ferry, Heyward Shepherd, Heywood Shepherd, John Brown's Raid, Lost Cause, monuments
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