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New Video – Looking at “Gettysburg”: The Movie’s 30th Anniversary
Sarah Kay Bierle, Frank Jastrzembski, Dan Welch, Brian Swartz, and Tom McMillan discuss the movie “Gettysburg” and that film’s 30th anniversary. They’ll chat about favorite moments, essays about the movie in the Emerging Civil War books, historical challenges, and the legacy of the movie! Here are links to the books mentioned in the video: The […]
Read more...The First Time I Watched The Movie “Gettysburg”
This weekend in the town of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg movie fan club assembles to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary! Free events and ticketed events crowd the calendar for many local museums, and many of the actors will be in town or perhaps even on the battlefield as part of the cast reunion and film festival […]
Read more...Battlefield Tour, Radio Program, and Upcoming Virtual History Program for Wreaths Across America
Exciting and grateful update…as of Wednesday morning, we are donating just over $1700 to Wreaths Across America which will be 101 wreaths placed in Winchester National Cemetery this December. Thank you so much for the support of this fundraiser and project. This year Emerging Civil War has offered a battlefield tour at New Market and […]
Read more...Upcoming Presentations: Oct.–Nov. 2023
October: 1: Derek Maxfield, “Man of Fire,” Town of West Sparta, West Sparta, NY 1: Sarah Kay Bierle and Jon Tracey, Battlefield Tour at New Market, New Market, VA (tickets available) 5: Brian Swartz, Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Civil War, New England Civil War Museum, Rockville, CT. 6: Chris Mackowski, “The ANV’s […]
Read more...Book Review: One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause
One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause. By Stephen A. Goldman. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. Hardcover, 439pp. $29.95 Reviewed by Sarah Kay Bierle. It is easy to wish for definitive starts and finishes in the timelines of history, but rarely did the past’s […]
Read more...ECW Podcast Now Available: Wreaths Across America
Once again this year, Emerging Civil War is supporting the efforts of Wreaths Across America at Winchester National Cemetery. In a bonus episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, Chris Mackowski talks with Sarah Kay Bierle, who is leading the charge (along with Jon Tracey). Find out about a special in-person battlefield tour at New […]
Read more...Wreaths, Winchester, and an Upcoming Battlefield Tour—All Discussed in a New Video!
Chris Mackowski and Sarah Kay Bierle chat about Wreaths Across America, Winchester National Cemetery, and New Market Battlefield in this new video. It’s part of Emerging Civil War’s fundraising efforts to help place more wreaths on Civil War soldiers’ graves this coming December. We invite you to come out to New Market, Virginia, on Sunday, […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: Such a Clash of Arms
We’re closing in on the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, and the Emerging Civil War Podcast has just the thing to get you ready. Kevin Pawlak joins guest host Sarah Kay Bierle for a conversation about his new book, Such a Clash of Arms: The Maryland Campaign of 1862. You can listen on Spotify […]
Read more...Les Miserables and the American Civil War: An Introduction
Over the next couple of weeks, ECW authors David T. Dixon and Sarah Kay Bierle will be sharing some emerging research that they’ve been working on. What does a novel, a Broadway musical, and European history have to do with the American Civil War? A lot more than you might guess at first glance. Published […]
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