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Maggie Walker and how she valued history
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about African American banker Maggie Walker and her impact on the banking industry. I’m always glad to see her get recognition for her hard work in banking and her leadership in civil rights. One of the things I also admire about her was her strong sense of […]
Read more...Home Libraries: Civil War Library Ramblings
“I like Civil War books and I cannot lie, You ECW readers can’t deny, That when a brown paper package arrives at your place, With a Savas Beatie or SIUP sticker in your face, You get…” Most people don’t know those are the original lyrics to Sir Mix A Lot’s “Baby Got Back”…I kid, I […]
Read more...Civil War Back to School: The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University
(Part five in a series) To conclude our “Civil War Back-to-School” series, we head to the banks of the Potomac River, not far from Antietam Creek and Antietam National Battlefield—apropos for today—to hear from Dr. James J. Broomall. Jim is the Ray and Madeline Johnston Endowed Chair in American History and Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, […]
Read more...Civil War Back to School: Prologue
(Part one in a series) What does the “back-to-school” season look like for the Civil War world? By now, we’ve all seen the headlines of pandemic-related mishaps at a number of colleges across the country following unexpected COVID-19 outbreaks. Schools continue to try and adapt, many driven by a need to retain room-and-board revenue they […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: CVBT Aims to Raise $10,000 for Battlefield Preservation through a New Virtual Event
The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (CVBT) is innovating and continuing to press forward with their mission to save historically significant and endangered ground at the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. With the global pandemic canceling their annual spring conference and community fundraiser, the nonprofit has launched a virtual fundraiser with […]
Read more...The Book I Threw (And Then Picked Up Again)
The first book I ever threw across a room? The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. (Assigned reading in high school literature class.) That afternoon started a little journey of reality and history…I just didn’t know it when I pitched the book. Henry Fleming—the fictional young soldier in a fictional Union regiment in the […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Online Lectures from the Jacob Rohrbach Inn
The Jacob Rohrbach Inn in Sharpsburg, Maryland, hosts an annual summer lecture series, and this year has not been an exception. Just recently, they have started the option of gathering safely in person for the outdoor presentations, but for those of us who are far away or not ready to attend a gathering, there is […]
Read more...“Stonewall Jackson is Down”
We had bushwhacked our way from the 17th Michigan Monument along Burnside Drive up through the woods to Heth’s Salient—a lesser-known part of the Spotsylvania Battlefield but one worth seeing. Doug Crenshaw and Bert Dunkerly had come up from Richmond for the afternoon to pound around in the brush with me and see such out-of-the-way […]
Read more...The Civil War Zoom Boom: The Tattooed Historian
(part six in a series) John Heckman, a.k.a.the Tattooed Historian, might be the grand-daddy of the Civil War Zoom Boom. Since hitting the scene, Heckman has used social media made a full-court press to not just talk about Civil War history but also the field of Civil War history. As part of that, he’s been […]
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