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In Memory of Mary Tyler Moore
Most people remember Mary Tyler Moore as one of Hollywood’s great funny ladies, and for good reason: Laura Petrie, and more recently, Mary Richards, left an indelible mark on American society. Moore’s death today at age 80 is a real loss. What many don’t know is that Mary Tyler Moore had deep ties to the […]
Read more...The Year in Review 2016: #10
As is our custom here at Emerging Civil War, we’re rounding out the year by counting down our ten most popular posts written during the last twelve months. Because several of us have worked at the Stonewall Jackson Shrine—the building where the Confederate general died—and two of our authors have written a book about the […]
Read more...Petersburg’s Second Presbyterian Church and the Christmas of 1864
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Mike Wright. The Christmas season of 1864 at Petersburg would never be forgotten by the soldiers who manned the trenches or the citizens of the town, including the members at Second Presbyterian Church. If only these walls could talk. Second Presbyterian Church, which was formed in […]
Read more...Conclusion
CONCLUSION by Chris Mackowski Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · About the Author Commentary The conclusion to Turning Points of the American Civil War suggests a variety of other possible turning points beyond those explored in the book’s essays. To spark additional conversation, ECW writers have written about a number of other possible turning […]
Read more...Chapter Five
CHAPTER FIVE: “The Cresting Tide: Robert E. Lee and the Road to Chancellorsville” by Kristopher D. White Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Noah Brooks remembered that May afternoon in vivid detail. “Never as long as I […]
Read more...The Affable Archie Botts
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Frank Jastrzembski Nestled in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery of Richmond, Virginia, is a discolored marker with a heartfelt epitaph that reads: Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Archibald B. Botts of the 4th U. S. Infantry, who died at Camargo, Mexico Jan. 1, 1847 He graduated […]
Read more...Skeleton In The Attic
I was doing some detail photography outside my favorite historical house in Winchester, Virginia. (It’s actually modern law 0ffices, but during the 1860’s, it was the McGuire family home.) Pointing my camera lens toward the upper garret windows, I zoomed in to check the architecture details. Yikes! A skeleton! Why is there a skeleton in the […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Beverly, WV–“a quiet,old fashioned town”
Today, Beverly, West Virginia hardly seems as if it’s a blip on a map. But I can assure you, it is well worth the history buff’s time to visit. Beverly has been around since the late 1700’s, though it began to flourish with the completion of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike in 1847, a route that connected the […]
Read more...Traveling Advice: Don’t Forget To Look Left & Right
When I was a little kid, my mom would let me run across the street to get the mail. We didn’t live on a busy road, but she taught me road safety. First, listen. Then, look to the left, right, and left again. If there weren’t any cars coming, I could cross the street. Pretty […]
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