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Week In Review: December 2-9, 2018
Grab some coffee, tea, cider, or hot cocoa and catch-up or re-read some of this week’s blog posts at Emerging Civil War. Some special highlights include a memorial piece, ties between the Civil War and Pearl Harbor, thoughts on the Mine Run Campaign, and some stories about 1860’s music in California. Sunday, December 2: In […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 26 – December 2, 2018
This week was a little slower on the blog but busy in the field. Did you catch American Battlefield Trust’s Facebook Live and see who was helping with the special event? We hope you’ll enjoy the links to these articles and happenings in our week in review…
Read more...December 2018 and January 2019 Presentations
December: 1st: Sarah Kay Bierle, Civil War Christmas Living History Event at Drum Barracks, Wilmington, CA 10th: Doug Crenshaw, The Seven Days, Richmond Civil War Roundtable 10th: Phill Greewalt: “Prospect Hill and the Battle of Fredericksburg,” Western North Carolina Civil War Roundtable
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“All history proves that music is as indispensable to warfare as money; and money has been called the sinews of war. Music is the soul of Mars.” — New York Herald, 1862 * * * Chris Mackowski: “Bobby Horton and ‘The Kennesaw Line,’” an interview and additional resources—Web Exclusive Dan Welch: “The Civil […]
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“The biggest event in our history belongs on the biggest canvas humans can devise.” — William C. Davis “The Civil War and the Confederacy in Cinema,” The Cause Lost * * * ECW Posts about Civil War Movies: The Conundrum of Missouri Guerrilla Flicks by Kristen Pawlak The Battle of New Market on […]
Read more...Literature
“The real war will never get in the books.” — Walt Whitman, Specimen Days * * * Chris Mackowski: “Gods and Generals: A Conversation with Jeff Shaara“—Web Exclusive Stephen Davis: “The Delicious If: MacKinlay Kantor’s If the South Had Won the Civil War and Alternative History“—Web Exclusive * * * ECW […]
Read more...Entertaining History
Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and SongChris Mackowski, editor “Engaging the Civil War” SeriesSouthern Illinois University Press,2019 Click here for ordering information Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people’s attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit battlefields, museums, and historic sites. This lively […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 19-25, 2018
We kicked off Thanksgiving week with grateful thoughts and reflections on the Gettysburg Address. Then, editor Sarah Kay Bierle has been in the “research kitchen” whipping up some articles for her traditional Civil War Cookin’ series in November. There’s also news about podcasts, new books, newsletters, and shopping lists along with a plethora of Thanksgiving […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 11-18, 2018
This week started with thoughts on the connections between the Civil War and World War I in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the armistice that ended WWI and continued with symposium news, a book review, an interview and more! Check-out our week in review and have a wonderful Sunday.
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