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A Monumental Discussion: Julie Mujic
As the events in Charlottesville were taking place, I finished reading a new book by Washington Post journalist Steven Levingston called Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights. Levingston offers a chronological narrative focused on the evolution of President John F. Kennedy’s views on civil rights, as interpreted and […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: Hood’s Protest and Howe Avenue
Part of a series. The Confederate offensive at Gettysburg on July 2nd was supposed to start much closer to the now-famous Peach Orchard than it actually did. Prior to cresting Warfield Ridge, one of the future jumping-off points for the Confederate offensive, First Corps commander James Longstreet was very active. Riding up to division commander […]
Read more...Gettysburg Off the Beaten Path: The 27th Connecticut Monuments at Gettysburg
Part of a series. The 27th Connecticut Infantry was one of those hard luck regiments that served with the Army of the Potomac. The Nutmeg State men entered Federal service during the “Emergency of 1862,” when Robert E. Lee turned the wars Eastern Theater on its ear. Although the unit was made up of 9-month […]
Read more...Lee Statue to Come Down Today in Richmond
The Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, is set to come down today. I happened to be passing through the city on Tuesday, so I swung by Lee Circle for one last look. You can watch a livestream of the statue’s removal through Virginia Public Media. (I pass this along for […]
Read more...Year in Review 2020: #7
Our countdown of ECW’s Top Ten Most-Read posts from 2020 has been heavy so far on pieces from our esteemed editor-in-chief, Chris Mackowski, but our next entry highlights the work of another of our great Polish contributors! In June 2020, as Richmond’s Monument Avenue became the epicenter of monument frenzy, ECW historian Frank Jastrzembski raised […]
Read more...The Saga of Lt. General A.P. Hill’s Remains Continues
A few weeks back, I forwarded my ECW blog post on Lt. General A.P. Hill’s remains to several of Richmond’s leading officials involved in the removal of the city’s Confederate monuments: Mayor Levar Stoney, Interim City Attorney Haskell C. Brown III, the City Council of Richmond, and the Hermitage Road Historic District Association’s officers. I […]
Read more...“Stonewall Jackson is Down”
We had bushwhacked our way from the 17th Michigan Monument along Burnside Drive up through the woods to Heth’s Salient—a lesser-known part of the Spotsylvania Battlefield but one worth seeing. Doug Crenshaw and Bert Dunkerly had come up from Richmond for the afternoon to pound around in the brush with me and see such out-of-the-way […]
Read more...Week In Review: June 22-28, 2020
Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Gaines Mill, monuments, Juneteenth history, Gone With The Wind, and more… You’ll find a wide variety of posts about history, historiography, and Civil War memory this week! Pick and choose what you like or dive in to explore the full Week in Review…
Read more...History vs. Memory: Statues of Stonewall Offer a Lesson
Do we erase history when we take down a statue? That’s a question at the core of recent debate concerning Confederate monuments. Personally, I’m not convinced we do, but I do know we erase memory. However, the distinction between “memory” and “history” is vital. To illustrate the difference, I want to harken back to a […]
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