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A Conversation with Dave Roth (part four)
(part four in a five-part series) I’ve been talking this week with Dave Roth of Blue & Gray Magazine. After a 34-year career as editor and publisher, Dave wrapped up the magazine’s run this past spring. Earlier this month, Emerging Civil War recognized his decades of work by naming him the recipient of the Award […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: Chris Mackowski
How many of you remember Piss Christ? In 1987, photographer Andres Serrano took a small plastic crucifix and submerged it in a glass of his own urine. He then took a photo and included it in a touring exhibit where, in 1989—after two years on display—it suddenly caused a national uproar. Conservatives called the work […]
Read more...A Monumental Discussion: Brian Matthew Jordan
by Brian Matthew Jordan With remarkable speed, Confederate monuments are vanishing from public spaces around the country. In New Orleans, an empty pedestal now caps the sixty-foot column that once supported a defiant Robert Edward Lee. A jackhammer took up the monument that the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected at the dawn of the […]
Read more...The Seasonal Dilemma
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author Michael Aubrecht One of the more commonly overlooked challenges of Civil War battlefield interpretation is what I like to call “the seasonal dilemma.” This is the act of touring battlefields at a time of year that is vastly different than that of the actual engagement. With […]
Read more...ECW’s July 2017 Newsletter
The July 2017 ECW newsletter came out yesterday. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check it out here. In this month’s issue, we have our usual News & Notes section and a list of our upcoming presentations. But also of note: Editor-in-Chief Chris Mackowski takes a walk on the Chancellorsville battlefield and finds […]
Read more...Last Road North
“I thought my men were invincible.” – Gen. Robert E. Lee Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign Savas Beatie, 2016 192 pp; 150 images, 17 maps ISBN: 978-1-61121-243-3 Click here to order * * * About the Book: A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the […]
Read more...Lost Opportunities in the Army of the Potomac—A Pair of Examples
Army management is a complicated skill in which the personality and temperament of commanders influence the inner workings and culture of the organization. The Union had no army which was as political, and influenced by outside politics, as its primary eastern theater force, the Army of the Potomac. Political infighting and dissent is well known […]
Read more...Foote on Lee
In an interview that appeared in the Summer 1999 issue of The Paris Review, Shelby Foote offered a few thoughts about the battle of Gettysburg, which he’d famously written about in “The Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign” (part of his mammoth three-volume Civil War narrative). “The single greatest mistake of the war by […]
Read more...Malvern Hill: A Victory With The Look And Feel Of Defeat
ECW welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson “I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me.” — William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, Line 13-15 The Army of the Potomac emerged the clear winner at Malvern Hill, the last of the Seven Days Battles fought around the Confederate […]
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