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Week In Review: August 29-September 5, 2021
Sunday, August 29: In the evening, guest author Doug Ullman, Jr. shared about three accounts of the Battle of Second Bull Run. Monday, August 30: Question of the Week asked which Bull Run/Manassas fight you prefer to study. Kevin Pawlak posted a chronology of the Confederacy’s 1862 counterstrokes.
Read more...Week In Review: August 23-29, 2021
This week we wrapped up the Fallen Leaders Blog Series, reviewed a few books, released a new podcast episode, chatted about Reconstruction, and more… Monday, August 23: Question of the Week focused on cavalry skirmishes. Guest author Guy Hasegawa shared about his research on Samuel Preston Moore for his new book. Fallen Leaders: George […]
Read more...Week In Review: August 15-22, 2021
Sunday, August 15: Fallen Leaders: The Armistead Family cemetery (by Kevin Pawlak) Monday, August 16: Question of the Week examined fallen leader’s tombstones or graveside monuments. Brian Swartz posted about the differences in Ellis Spear’s writings. Chris Mackowski hosted a BookChat with Guy Hasegawa about Matchless Organization. Sarah Kay Bierle added reflections on visuals from […]
Read more...Happy 10th Birthday, ECW!
On August 18, 2011, at 8:12 p.m., we published the first blog post to launch Emerging Civil War. The idea for our blog came from an evening of brainstorming by Chris Mackowski, Jake Struhelka, and Kris White as they sat on the porch of the caretaker’s cottage at the Stonewall Jackson Death Site (then called […]
Read more...Week In Review: August 9-15, 2021
Continuing the Fallen Leaders blog series this week along with press releases for the 2021 ECW Awards and other feature articles… Monday, August 9: Question of the Week focused on fallen leaders. Celebrating ECW’s 10th Birthday at the 2021 Symposium… (photos!) ECW honors Gary Gallagher with Award for Service in the Field of Civil War […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Frozen Custard & Battlefields
It’s blazing hot here on the East Coast this weekend, and it seems like a good time to revisit some of the ice cream and frozen custard posts hiding in the ECW archives…
Read more...ECW Honors Gibbons Backus with Upton Award
Emerging Civil War has selected Paige Gibbons Backus as the recipient of this year’s Emory Upton Award. The Upton Award is presented to a member of the Emerging Civil War community in recognition of outstanding service to ECW. Paige, who has blogged with ECW since 2016, serves as ECW’s social media manager. “As a digitally-based […]
Read more...ECW Honors Gary Gallagher with Award for Service in the Field of Civil War Public History
Emerging Civil War has selected Dr. Gary W. Gallagher as the 2021 recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in the Field of Civil War Public History. The award recognizes the work of an individual or organization that has made a significant impact on the field of public history in a way that […]
Read more...The 2021 ECW Symposium–Happy 10th Birthday!
What a birthday celebration ECW had over the weekend to celebrate our tenth year. Thank you to everyone who showed up to make our Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge such a success. For those who weren’t able to make it, our friends at C-SPAN were on hand to record festivities, and segments will […]
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