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Week In Review: December 2-8, 2019
Here’s a look back at the previous week at Emerging Civil War:
Read more...A Conversation with John Coski (part five)
Part five of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John might be best known to the public for his work on the history of the Confederate battle flag, but he’s also had a huge impact on the field through his […]
Read more...Week in Review: October 28-November 3, 2019
Meg Groeling deserves a nice round of applause. Her research articles on Abraham and his Civil War adventures finally posted and took us through the week! You’ll also find updates from CSPAN, a Civil War War in the Pacific Northwest Weekender, and some fun posts for Halloween.
Read more...Week In Review: September 30-October 6, 2019
We’re adding voices to answer the question “do we still care about the Civil War?” and you’ll find members and guest authors discussing that topic this week and into the coming week. There’s also “heroic poetry”, a discussion of politics and war, a battlefield park in Knoxville, and a preservation victory at Gettysburg, along with […]
Read more...Lincoln Develops a More Modern Command System – Part 2: Frustration to Breakthrough
Emerging Civil War welcomes back JoAnna M. McDonald (This piece follows the introductory reminder of wars and republics and Part 1: Growing Pains) Thus far, in the first fourteen months, President Abraham Lincoln’s command systems had failed to generate success on all fronts, and the next nineteen months he would experience much of the same […]
Read more...Lincoln Develops a More Modern Command System, Part 1: Growing Pains
Emerging Civil War welcomes back JoAnna M. McDonald (This piece follows the introductory reminder of wars and republics.) When you think of the Northern effort in winning the war, you probably picture Congress passing legislation that generated huge numbers of soldiers and ships and a surplus of supplies to support their military. The fact, however, […]
Read more...Winning Wars in a Republic
Emerging Civil War welcomes back JoAnna M. McDonald, and this short post “sets the stage” for a full discussion in the following days about Lincoln and his challenges with a republic at war. While the North and South had different social systems which created some governmental dissimilarities, both were republics. With this in mind and […]
Read more...Week In Review: August 26-September 1, 2019
From uniforms to statues, the Mexican-American War, Culpeper history, casualties at Second Massasas, and plans for the weekend…it’s been a full week on the ECW blog. Catch all the links to all the blog posts in our Week in Review, and have a fantastic holiday weekend!
Read more...Let Us Reason Together
ECW welcomes back JoAnna M. McDonald Several weeks ago, Chris Mackowski asked if I would be interested in contributing to the Emerging Civil War blog, and, if so, what type of articles would I offer. As a student of the Civil War and military studies since my youth, and ultimately, an author, it took me […]
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