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A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part five)
(part five of five) We conclude today my interview with Dave Ruth, who starts 2018 as the former superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield. Dave retired at the beginning of this week after a 44-year career with the National Park Service, including the last 26 in Richmond. “One of the things that I never figured out […]
Read more...A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part four)
(part four of five) Earlier this week, Dave Ruth retired as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield—a national park that preserves stories from Civil War campaigns in both the 1862 and 1864. But as Dave explains today, the park’s layers of history resonate even more deeply—and in the most unexpected of ways. CHRIS MACKOWSKI: I’m thinking […]
Read more...A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part three)
(part three of five) I’ve been talking with Dave Ruth, who retired this week as superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield after serving there for 26 years. During yesterday’s segment of my conversation with Dave, we talked about the important preservation work the park has been engaged in. But Dave says preserving the ground is just […]
Read more...A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part two)
(part two of five) After a 44-year career with the National Park Service, Dave Ruth, superintendent at Richmond National Battlefield, retired at the beginning of this week. Dave spent the last twenty-six years of his career at Richmond, and during that time, he saw the park more than quadruple in size. But as he told […]
Read more...A Conversation with Dave Ruth, Richmond’s Retiring Superintendent (part one)
(part one of five) I recently heard Dave Ruth described as “the last of the great, old-guard superintendents.” For more than thirty years, Dave has made Richmond National Battlefield his life’s work, overseeing the park’s growth from 754 acres to just under 4,000. With stories from the 1862 Peninsula Campaign overlapping with stories from the […]
Read more...ECW Honors Dave Ruth for Service in Civil War Public History
Emerging Civil War is pleased to honor Dave Ruth, former superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield Park, as the recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. Emerging Civil War’s Award for Service in Civil War Public History recognizes the work of an individual or organization that has made […]
Read more...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 Museum of the Confederacy). John has overseen the museum’s research library, assisted with exhibits, and […]
Read more...2018 Year In Review: ECW Blog Series
It’s been another full year with wonderful articles on Emerging Civil War Blog. Take a moment to review the officially coordinated series and some of the multi-post articles featured this year! We’re grateful for all our authors’ contributions and the guest authors who have joined us to help create these series. Enjoy the look back […]
Read more...Happy 200th Birthday, Ulysses S. Grant!
I think we sometimes forget the magnitude of what Ulysses S. Grant did: he saved the United States of America. That’s no small thing, saving the country. And he did so in a way that ensured the end of slavery, giving force to the political vision laid out by Lincoln through victory on the battlefield. […]
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