Pick #4 on my Top 10 List: Mr. Lincoln’s Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady by Roy Meredith.
Part of a Series: Books Every Civil War Buff Ought to Own The last time I visited my mother, I looked in vain for my father’s copy of Mathew Brady’s photographs. I know they were in a book with a blue cloth cover, and that my dad had it for as long as I can […]
Read more...Thank You for 500
How appropriate that we wrap up the Thanksgiving weekend at the same time Emerging Civil War hits its 500th post. It gives us the perfect opportunity to say “Thank you” to you, our Constant Reader, for joining us as we’ve taken a look back at the war with fresh eyes. We’re grateful to you for […]
Read more...A historian’s stroll across Camp Allegheny
By Bethany Canfield Camp Allegheny rests inside the Monongahela National Forest (MNF) amidst the Potomac Highlands of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Most visitors to the area are not aware of this resource, one of the best preserved Civil War battlefields. It is situated along the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike (Rt. 250) on Allegheny Mountain. Recently members […]
Read more...The Union Gives Thanks–The Soldier’s and Sailor’s Thanksgiving of 1864–Part I
Nationally, America only celebrated two holidays in the mid-nineteenth century: July 4 and George Washington’s Birthday. This changed when, due to the tireless efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale, President Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring November 24, 1864 to be a day of Thanksgiving for the Union. Upon hearing this news, wealthy, influential New Yorker George W. […]
Read more...New Emerging Civil War book series debuts!
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with publisher Savas Beatie for the launch of a new book imprint, the Emerging Civil War Series. The Emerging Civil War Series offers compelling and easy-to-read overviews of some of the Civil War’s most important battles and issues. The first two titles will be co-authored by Chris […]
Read more...Lincoln brilliantly captures the icon’s humanity
One of the things I’ve found most remarkable about the Civil War is the physical change that overcame President Lincoln during his time in office. The distinguished, thoughtful lawyer from Illinois who first arrived in Washington wasted away over four years; by 1865, he was virtually a smiling skeleton with a mop of bedhead hair. […]
Read more...149 Years Ago…
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We […]
Read more...Question of the Week: The Present State of History
In a forward for the audiobook edition of his alternative-history novel Gettysburg, Newt Gingrich contends, “The profession of history today has been divided into specializations without life and postmodernism without joy or meaning, complete to the Orwellian rewriting of history to suit modern political agendas.” Do you agree or disagree? Why?
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