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Ryan Quint’s Fascination with Lesser-Known Battles Leads to Book on Monocacy
By ECW Correspondent Emily Losito A young Ryan T. Quint sat at his high school desk entranced in a Civil War documentary. His teacher had No Retreat from Destiny playing on the screen, a 2006 film about the battle of Monocacy. Quint didn’t know that this would spark his curiosity into the history behind smaller […]
Read more...Noyalas Takes the Helm at Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute
Emerging Civil War extends our congratulations to our friend Jonathan A. Noyalas. Already regarded as one of the finest historians in the Shenandoah Valley, and lauded for his excellence in teaching, he started this semester with a new post: the director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute (CWI). “Jonathan Noyalas Returns ‘Home’ To Lead Institute […]
Read more...“Unparalleled Insult and Wrong to the State”: Unionism and the Camp Jackson Affair of May 1861 (Part 1)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome guest author Kristen M. Trout On May 13, 1861, the headline “Fight Between Rioters and the Home Guard – Several Persons Killed” adorned the covers of the nation’s most popular newspapers.[1] St. Louis citizens recalled, “[T]he large, usually lively city had a troubled, depressed appearance. The streets and […]
Read more...Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO: “Unintended Consequences: Ball’s Bluff and the Rise of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War” by James Morgan III Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Perched above a snarl in the Potomac River not terribly far […]
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INTRODUCTION by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Commentary · Acknowledgments for the Online Edition Commentary Chris Kolakowski, Chief Historian, Emerging Civil War ECW’s Turning Points of the American Civil War examines several key turning points of the conflict. Fine writing by some great historians explains each turning point while the introductory essays provide some […]
Read more...Mezurek Highlights the “Cause” of U.S.C.T. regiment from Ohio
by ECW correspondent Amelia Kibbe Dr. Kelly Mezurek remembered watching the popular film Gone With the Wind (1939) on a Saturday afternoon when she was only a teenager. The movie, she said, gave her a first taste of the Civil War. Mezurek, now an associate professor at Walsh University in Ohio, said from that day and […]
Read more...A Q&A About Publishing
“I hope you can find a way to make it clear SB is ‘your’ press and will remain so,” Ted Savas said to me this week. Ted, the managing partner of Savas Beatie, LLC, has been Emerging Civil War’s publisher for three and a half years. He and I were talking about ECW’s collaboration with […]
Read more...An Interview with Ted Alexander (part three)
part three Although he retired at the beginning of 2016, former Park Service historian Ted Alexander plans to return to Antietam National Battlefield later this year. In my conversation with Ted, I asked him why he wanted to come back if he was just now retiring. TED: Well, something to do. . . . (He […]
Read more...Calamity in Carolina
“Concentrate all available forces and stop Sherman.” — Robert E. Lee to Joseph E. Johnston, February 22, 1865 Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville by Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt Savas Beatie, 2015 168 pp.; 148 images, 8 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-245-7 Click here to order * * * […]
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