Civil War Cooking: From History Books to A Modern Kitchen
It’s been a crazy year. I think we can all agree there. By early autumn, I started wondering how to revive the Civil War Cooking series for the week of Thanksgiving. (I missed last year due to moving.) In need of a creative project and needing to spice up my typical pandemic season, eat-at-home-all-the-time options, […]
Read more...Question of the Week: 11/23-11/29/20
There were so many good responses last week, that we’ll be revisited the question with different armies over the next few weeks… In your opinion, who was the best corps commander for the Army of the Potomac?
Read more...JFK’s Arrival in Dallas
On this date, in 1963, at 11:38 a.m., President John F. Kennedy touched down at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. He’d spoken that morning at a breakfast in Fort Worth and was slated to speak at a business lunch at the Dallas Business and Trade Mart. Alas, gunman Lee Harvey Oswlad intercepted the president as […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 16-22, 2020
It’s Week in Review time! From Robin Hood to the Gettysburg Address, we’ve got a selection of unique posts for you to explore… Monday, November 16: Question of the Week looked at leadership in the Army of Northern Virginia. Sarah Kay Bierle started a series about Robin Hood and the American Civil War.
Read more...Weekly Whitman: “By the Bivouac’s Fearful Flame”
By the bivouac’s fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note, The tents of the sleeping army, the fields’ and woods’ dim outline, The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence, Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving, The shrubs and trees, (as […]
Read more...Robin Hood & The Civil War: Rethinking the Power of Legends (Part 6, Conclusion)
End of a series Legends are powerful, but that doesn’t mean they are right. Sometimes, we can still research to separate fact from fiction. Other times—like with Robin Hood—too many stories exist and too much time has elapsed to have solid certainty. Following the thread of thought about memory in the previous blog post, I […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: A Question For You
Let’s change things up a little this weekend with a Saving History Question.
Read more...ECW Weekender: Fort Scott, Kansas (Virtually)
(Click here to go straight to the Virtual Tour) Fort Scott, established in 1842, was a frontier military outpost in Kansas, and it was garrisoned by the U.S. Army through 1853. In 1855, local settlers were allowed to purchase the abandoned military buildings and two years later the civilian community at Fort Scott.
Read more...Robin Hood & The Civil War: Another Angle on Memory (Part 5)
Part of a series Memory. I’m talking about the historic kind, the slippery slope kind. Spending summer evenings watching a Robin Hood series edged my thinking toward the need for heroes and how memory is often conformed to the era in which it is evolved. Let’s take Robin Hood as the “innocent” example and then […]
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