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Hot Off the Presses
We’re heading in the 11th hour of set up for the Third Annual Emerging Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, which kicks off this evening. One of the last bit of icing on the cake, hot off the presses, is the new Traces of the Bloody Struggle: The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House. Just […]
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Read more...Confessions from Chickamauga: “Taking Chattanooga is as important as taking Richmond.”
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Hunter S. Jones Although I’d visited the Chickamauga Park my entire life, I knew next to nothing about the actual battle. When I started this journey, I had no idea what a corps was or a brigade, even though I have an undergrad degree in History. […]
Read more...“History Hides the Lies of Our Civil War”: The Forgotten Battle of Pickett’s Mill
Today we are pleased to welcome guest author Angela M. Zombek, Ph.D. Angela is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Petersburg College, in Clearwater, Florida. Sh erecieved her an M.A. from the University of Akron, and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. She is surrently working on her first book, Penitentiaries, Punishment, and […]
Read more...Gettysburg Mural Gets New Life
Gettysburg buffs are well-acquainted with Mark Dunkelman’s wonderful mural that depicts the fight in Kuhn’s Brickyard on July 1, 1863. The mural sits just off modern-day Coster Avenue. Time and weather have both roughed up the mural since its original installation in 1988 and its subsequent restoration in 2001. Fortunately, Mark recently related some good […]
Read more...Getting “Friend-Zoned” in the Civil War
At some point in a dwindling romantic relationship, most people hear or say something along the lines of: it’s not working out, but we can still be friends. Today this prophecy, which rarely amicably pans out as intended, is referred to as the “friendzone.” But the phenomenon existed far earlier than the complications of updating a Facebook […]
Read more...Exciting Symposium Update!
All of us at Emerging Civil War are excited to announce that C-SPAN will be filming the Saturday session of the First Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. C-SPAN will be filming live to tape, meaning that they will not be airing the symposium live, but will air talks at a later date. […]
Read more...Top 15 Posts of 2013—Number 11: Gary Gallagher, ECW, and the Wild West of Civil War Blogging (part one)
I’ve had two experiences recently that have given me pause to consider the relationship between history and blogging—and, by extension, that’s given me the opportunity to reflect on our specific mission here at Emerging Civil War. The first was a column by Gary Gallagher in the June 2012 issue of Civil War Times. The second […]
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