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Category Archives: Sesquicentennial
Being Grant: Now and Then (part six)
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend, Dr. Curt Fields. Curt is nationally known for his acclaimed portrayal of Ulysses S. Grant. This week, he reflects on some of the highlights of his career thus far. (part six of … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Being-Grant-Now-and-Then, Curt Fields, The Semester of Grant, West Point
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Being Grant: Now and Then (part four)
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend, Dr. Curt Fields. Curt is nationally known for his acclaimed portrayal of Ulysses S. Grant. This week, he reflects on some of the highlights of his career thus far. (part four of … Continue reading
Being Grant: Now and Then (part three)
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend, Dr. Curt Fields. Curt is nationally known for his acclaimed portrayal of Ulysses S. Grant. This week, he reflects on some of the highlights of his career thus far. (part three of … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Personalities, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Being-Grant-Now-and-Then, Curt Fields, Sesquicentennial, Shiloh, Ulysses S. Grant
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Being Grant: Now and Then (part two)
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend, Dr. Curt Fields. Curt is nationally known for his acclaimed portrayal of Ulysses S. Grant. This week, he reflects on some of the highlights of his career thus far. (part two of … Continue reading
What We’ve Learned: Pondering Usable History
If but for a missing license plate, state police might not have caught Timothy McVeigh, or at least not soon after the crime. At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Lincoln, Memory, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, American Terrorist, French Revolution, John Adams, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassination, Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City National Memorial, sic semper tyrannis, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy McVeigh, usable history, what-we've-learned-since-the-sesquiscentennial
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What We’ve Learned: Civil War Round Tables – Decay or Development
Mike Movius, President CWRT Congress, shares his perspective on the last 10 years. One of the most startling things that we learned since the 150th sesquicentennial is that over seventy Civil War Round Tables (CWRTs) have closed their doors and … Continue reading
What We’ve Learned: Keep the Fire Alive for the Civil War
On April 12, 2011, I was sitting in my high school Civil War & Reconstruction course, just listening to my teacher talk to us about the significance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Early in the ‘Civil War … Continue reading
What We’ve Learned: “A Lot of History Every Month”
What have we learned since the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War? As it happens, those years correspond with my tenure as a contributing author to the Emerging Civil War blog starting in December 2014. Looking back over the posts, … Continue reading
Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
Kevin Levin, a historian, educator, and blogger based in Boston, has waded into this argument keyboard blazing. The first three chapters discuss in depth the definition of a “camp slave.” When a slave-owning family sent one of their men to … Continue reading
Maine at War: A Conversation with Writer Brian Swartz (part one)
Part one of a four-part series Much romance surrounds the state of Maine’s role in the Civil War, in large part because of the myth of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his role on Little Round Top. However, as Tom Huntington … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civilian, Common Soldier, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 14th Virginia Cavalry, 5th Virginia Infantry, Bangor Daily News, Brian Swartz, Conversation-with-Brian-Swartz, Dave Cheever, Maine, Maine at War, Maine Farmer, Maine Roads to Gettysburg, Maine State Archives, Sarah Sampson, Tom Huntington
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