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Happy Presidents’ Day 2017!
Wishing you a wonderful holiday, celebrating favorite presidents in American history! Looking for some articles about Washington and Lincoln?
Read more...Question of the Week: 10/24-10/30/16
Join the discussion for ECW’s special blog series “1860’s Politics.” In your opinion, what was the most important political event of the war?
Read more...Civil War Political Movie Night!
Need a break from the nightly news? Find a soda, make some popcorn (or whatever snack you like at the movies) and “escape” into Civil War politics through historical films. I’ve pulled three movies from my collection to recommend. They’re entertaining, but prepare to be challenged to re-think some ideas about the 1860’s.
Read more...Lincoln: This Little Joker for President
Our recent look at the politics of the 1860s—and my own interest, in particular, in political cartoons—had me thinking of the conversation I had last year with scholar Todd Thompson, author of The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire. You can read that ECW interview here, and you can read my review of […]
Read more...Civil War History & The Dallas Museum of Art: Five Boys on a Wall
Eastman Johnson is one of my favorite American 19th Century artists, and I was thrilled to see that the Dallas Museum of Art had one of his works. “Five Boys on a Wall” was created in the 1870’s and shows youngsters in various poses, but looking as if they have just been called since they […]
Read more...Year in Review: 2020 New Members
In 2020, Emerging Civil War welcomed 5 new members! You’ll be hearing and seeing more from them in the new year, so if you missed their welcome posts here’s a chance to get acquainted virtually.
Read more...Robin Hood & The Civil War: Another Angle on Memory (Part 5)
Part of a series Memory. I’m talking about the historic kind, the slippery slope kind. Spending summer evenings watching a Robin Hood series edged my thinking toward the need for heroes and how memory is often conformed to the era in which it is evolved. Let’s take Robin Hood as the “innocent” example and then […]
Read more...Week In Review: November 2-8, 2020
Spent the week keeping up with the news and might have missed some blog posts? No worries! We’ve got the week in review for you with a full selection of historical politics, cinema-worthy moments on the Mississippi River, biographical reflections, and more. Lots of history to explore… Monday, November 2: Question of the Week highlighted […]
Read more...Mary Chesnut & The Royals, Part 1
Mary Chesnut—the famous Southern diarist—loved to keep up with the news and that included international matters. True, she spent a lot of time following rumors and speculating if or when a European power would aid the Confederacy, but there was more to fascination with the world on the other side of the pond. At one […]
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