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Book Review: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
The field of deathways studies is decidedly a niche market that many people find morbid, but there is no mistaking the fact that such work shines a light on American culture teaching us important things about ourselves – past and present. Author Sarah J. Percell’s new work, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Historic Warrenton, Virginia
A couple weeks ago I spent a few hours in historic downtown Warrenton in central Virginia. The town is rich with layers of history and many Civil War stories since it changed hands at least 67 times. Warrenton’s history stretches back to the Colonial era when the junction of the Falmouth-Winchester Road and the Alexandria-Culpeper […]
Read more...Nat Turner, Elephants, and Some Interesting Cases of Rebranded Civil War Era Imagery
Sometimes historians go down a rabbit hole trying to decipher documents or draw connections. We have all spent hours staring at a pile of documents looking for that one critical piece of paper. Other times we spend hours thinking about a document, trying to remember where we saw something similar before, hoping to make a […]
Read more...The Winter that Won the War: The Winter Encampment at Valley Forge
The Winter that Won the War:The Winter Encampment at Valley Forge, 1777–1778 by Phillip S. GreenwaltSavas Beatie, 2021192 pp.; 150 images, 10 mapsISBN: 978-1-61121-493-2(click here to order) About the Book “An Army of skeletons appeared before our eyes naked, starved, sick and discouraged.” Gouverneur Morris recorded these words in his report to the Continental Congress […]
Read more...A Legacy of Slavery and the Civil War: America’s Gun Culture
A lone tear streamed down the cheek of Abraham Lincoln on Time magazine’s April 2011 cover commemorating the 150th anniversary of the nation’s greatest tragedy. Editors imagined the martyred president surveying today’s America and lamenting that “we’re still fighting the Civil War.” In the decade since this issue appeared, the battle over Civil War memory […]
Read more...Civil War Medicine: Florence Nightingale, The Influencer
While every woman who volunteered to nurse during the Civil War had their own reasons for doing so, one of the more popularly cited motivators for these women was not even American. Florence Nightingale, the “Lady with the Lamp” who served as a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), became what we may modernly dub […]
Read more...Gustav Waagner: The Hungarian Revolutionary Faced One of his Toughest Tests against Stonewall Jackson at Manassas Junction
After the march of Stonewall Jackson’s 24,000 men culminated at Bristoe Station on August 26, 1862, where they managed to cut John Pope’s communication and supply line, Jackson turned his attention to Manassas Junction five miles up the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. A portion of his command scattered the small Federal garrison there overnight; Jackson […]
Read more...ECW Honors Dan Welch with Upton Award
Emerging Civil War has selected Dan Welch as the recipient of this year’s Emory Upton Award. The Upton Award is presented to a member of the Emerging Civil War (ECW) community in recognition of outstanding service to ECW. “Dan has been a pinch hitter for ECW in so many ways it’s almost impossible to track […]
Read more...ECW Honors the American Battlefield Trust for Service in Civil War Public History
Emerging Civil War (ECW) is pleased to honor the American Battlefield Trust as the recipient of this year’s Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. Emerging Civil War’s Award for Service in Civil War Public History recognizes the work of an individual or organization that has made a significant impact on […]
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