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Gone With The Wind: Some Thoughts (Part 5 – Conclusion)
Part of a series Want to know one of my secrets about Gone With The Wind? Okay…here goes: I really, really want to see it on a movie theater screen. Because I choose to see it as art, not a history lesson. (And now in the eyes of some readers—to quote Scarlett and Rhett—“After this […]
Read more...Gone With The Wind: Some Thoughts (Part 4)
Part of a Series There are several ladies that I know who love Gone With The Wind. When I spent about a year researching the author, the novel, and the movie, I chatted with these women about why they liked Gone With The Wind so much, and I started noticing some trends. First, they thought […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review 20-27 August
This past week was primarily devoted to a continuation of a number of our series, including the discussion on Confederate monuments, as well as the beginning of a new one. We also posted a conversation with the recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. You may click on […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review 14-20 August
This past week, we have continued and kicked off several new series. The most prominent is an ongoing discussion regarding Confederate monuments, which we will continue later today. But first, for anyone who wants to recap the week, you may click the links below to read any of this past week’s posts.
Read more...The Future of Civil War History: Jim Broomall (part two)
part two of a four-part interview At the end of last week, we started a conversation with Dr. James Broomall, co-editor of a special issue of the journal Civil War History that looks at “The Future of Civil War History.” The journal sprang from a conference held in march of 2013 at Gettysburg College. The […]
Read more...Winners and Losers
Cannae. Waterloo. Some battles are so decisive that they define victory or defeat for generations – or millennia – to come. Most battles aren’t like that. Much more often, war is grinding attrition. Especially when the combatants have harnessed their national will and resources to the effort. Technology plays a role, and sometimes skill; but […]
Read more...Civil War, Civil Rights, and Thoughts on the MLK National Memorial
In late August 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and conjured the Union war leader in envisioning a new America: “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the […]
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