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2019 Symposium Spotlight: Dwight Hughes
Welcome back to another installment of our 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium Spotlight. Today we would like to introduce you to longtime ECW member and our resident naval historian, Dwight Hughes.
Read more...2019 Symposium Spotlight: Sarah Kay Bierle
Welcome back to another installment of our 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium Spotlight. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to feature introductions of all of our speakers for the 2019 Symposium, as well as give you a sneak peak of their talks. We’ll also be sharing suggested titles that you may want to read […]
Read more...2019 ECW Symposium Keynote Speaker Announced!
During Emerging Civil War’s Fifth Annual Symposium this past August, we teased our keynote speaker for the 2019 Symposium. Today, we wanted to give you a little bit more information about this amazing opportunity to hear A. Wilson Greene on August 2, 2019 at the Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium.
Read more...2019 ECW Symposium Announcement
We have some very exciting ECW Symposium information to share with you today, our full lineup of speakers for the 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium. And, over the coming weeks we will be bringing you speaker biographies, sneak peaks at their talks, suggested reading lists to get you excited about their topics, special rate lodging […]
Read more...The ECW Symposium is Almost Sold Out!
Reporting by ECW Correspondent Katie Tercek There are but a handful of tickets left for the Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge (and that’s not just marketing hype, either—we’re nearing capacity!). “This years theme is turning points of the American Civil War,” said Symposium co-organizer Dan Welch. “What were those pivotal moments […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: McClellen’s Defeat Before Richmond
by ECW Correspondent Jenna Cosentino Doug Crenshaw likes to help people discover the Civil War the way his uncle helped him. Every year on Crenshaw’s birthday, his uncle would send him books about the Civil War. “In each of the books, my uncle wrote ‘From the general to the colonel,’” Crenshaw said. “He probably sent […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Grant Crosses the James
reporting by ECW Correspondent Shannon Nichols Edward Alexander has made a career focusing on the end of the Petersburg Campaign. He’s a former historian with Pamplin Historical Park, which preserves the spot where Federals finally broke through the Confederate line on April 2. He’s also the author of Dawn of Victory: The Breakthrough at Petersburg, […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: The Battle of Ball’s Bluff
reporting by ECW Correspondent Jessica Goetz “You will never have a complete story,” says Jim Morgan. That’s his take on the Civil War in general and on the battle of Ball’s Bluff, in particular. Jim, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Civil War Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry, October 21 – […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: The Twisting Turns of the Election of ’64—The Point of No Return
by ECW Correspondent Josh Svetz Rea Andrew Redd has loved the Civil War all his life. Starting with reading Life magazine’s six-part series on the Civil War as a kid, Redd gets as much of a thrill from delving into the Civil War now as he did then. A hobby concerning the ghosts of the […]
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