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Author Archives: Chris Mackowski
Ulysses S. Grant and “The Babies”
My wife recently sent to me a photo of our six-month-old son with his foot in his mouth. That’s a feat I, in adulthood, occasionally still pull off, although in a less envious way and with more embarrassment. However, for … Continue reading
Statues of Stonewall: Charlottesville 2017
Perhaps you remember this image from my “Statues of StonewallStatues of Stonewall” series: the Stonewall Jackson monument in Charlottesville, Virginia. On August 12, a white supremacist rally in the city—organized to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. … Continue reading
On to On to Petersburg!
I don’t know about you, but for years, I have been anxiously awaiting the completion in Gordon Rhea’s epic study of the Overland Campaign. Knowing that the release of the final chapter was pending, I have been ridiculously excited for … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War
Tagged Cold Harbor, Gordon Rhea, On to Petersburg, Overland Campaign
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“Remembering 9/11 and the Lesson of Antietam”
It has become my custom on 9/11 to think back to a different day during a different September when America suffered an even more catastrophic loss of life. As I first explained in 2012, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. … Continue reading
Outraged about “media bias”? Read a Civil War newspaper.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard a lot of people complaining online in recent months about media bias. Regardless of whether they’re on the political left, right, or middle, I hear from so many people convinced that the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Newspapers
Tagged A Bohemian Brigade, Abraham Lincoln, All on Fire, Blue & Gray in Black and White, Brayton Harris, George Washington, Harold Holzer, Horace Greely, James Perry, John Adams, Lincoln, Lincoln and the Power of the Press, media bias, The Liberator, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Morris Chester, William Lloyd Garrison
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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part five)
(The final part of a five-part series) “I have a couple more favorite issues I can share if you’d like,” Dave Roth said when I wrapped up yesterday’s segment of my interview with the editor and publisher of Blue & … Continue reading
A Conversation with Dave Roth (part four)
(part four in a five-part series) I’ve been talking this week with Dave Roth of Blue & Gray Magazine. After a 34-year career as editor and publisher, Dave wrapped up the magazine’s run this past spring. Earlier this month, Emerging … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Andie Custer, Blue & Gray, Chickasaw Bayou, Conversation-with-Dave-Roth, Crazy Horse, Dave Roth, Eric Wittenberg, Farnsworth's charge, Frank O'Reilly, Gary Kross, George Crook, George Custer, Grierson's Raid, Little Big Horn, Mike Kauffman, Rosebud, St. Albans, Terry Winschel, William Glenn Robertson
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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part three)
(part three in a five-part series) I’ve been talking this week with Blue & Gray Magazine editor Dave Roth, the recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. Yesterday, he shared a few … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Books & Authors, Trans-Mississippi, Western Theater
Tagged Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home, Blue & Gray, Conversation-with-Dave-Roth, Dave Roth, Don Alberts, Fourth Texas Mounted, Jerry Potter, john hunt morgan, Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, Lt. Gen. Howard Graves, Ohio Penitentiary, Sibley's New Mexico Campaign, Sultanna, West Point
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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part two)
(part two in a five-part series) I’m talking this week with Dave Roth, editor and publisher of Blue & Gray Magazine and recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. Yesterday, Dave explained how he, … Continue reading
