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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Strike Them a Blow
When people ask me which of my books is my favorite, I try to tell them it’s like picking a favorite child. “I don’t like to play favorites,” I say. “Each one has things that make them my favorite.” That’s certainly true of my three kids—who are each my favorite—and it’s true of my books. […]
Read more...“Echoes Through Time”: New York State’s Only Civil War Museum
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe Longtime friends Thomas Place and Steve Teeft sat talking one day about the number of Civil War relics they had each collected over the years. “We both have great collections, but absolutely nobody sees them but me and you,” Teeft said. Although not right away, that observation grew into something larger, […]
Read more...New Edition of Antebellum Novel Explores Race Relations in the North
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe Megan Walsh first read Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends while riding the transportation system in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the setting for Webb’s 1857 work. As she traveled the streets just blocks away from the described location of the Garie family home, Walsh became fascinated with the novel. […]
Read more...McElfresh Maps the Civil War in Watercolor
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe Along the east side of North Union Street, one of the busiest streets in the small city of Olean, New York, in the back part of the first floor of an old, six-story building sits the office of the McElfresh Map Company. Inside the office, among plenty of book, papers, […]
Read more...Woman Who Claimed to Dress as a Soldier “A Con Artist” and Kardashian, Says Jack Davis
by ECW Correspondent Amelia Kibbe After having written and published more than 50 books, it’s pretty safe to say William C. Davis has done a lot of research. But, he said, to him, that’s one of the best parts of being an author. So he was ready for the research challenge his latest book presented […]
Read more...Mezurek Highlights the “Cause” of U.S.C.T. regiment from Ohio
by ECW correspondent Amelia Kibbe Dr. Kelly Mezurek remembered watching the popular film Gone With the Wind (1939) on a Saturday afternoon when she was only a teenager. The movie, she said, gave her a first taste of the Civil War. Mezurek, now an associate professor at Walsh University in Ohio, said from that day and […]
Read more...Rediscovering the Lost Art of Copyediting
by Emerging Civil War Correspondent Amelia Kibbe For Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., editor of the Emerging Civil War book series, everything comes back to credibility. After all, he said, if someone can’t get the little things correct, how can he or she be trusted with bigger things? So, of course, he struggled not to be annoyed […]
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