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Gettysburg’s Forgotten Visitor: Thomas Edison Tours Camp Colt
Among the many famous people to visit Gettysburg (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Nikita Khrushchev, just to name a few), one remains absent from most guidebook mentions or stories: Thomas Edison. This is peculiar, considering Edison’s fame and his personal connection to the battlefield. William Leslie Edison, the inventor’s son, served as a […]
Read more...Civil War Art: Eben E. Smith — Sequel of Amputation
This blog post contains graphic images and descriptions. With or without consent, Civil War soldiers’ injuries and bodies became teaching tools for the field of medicine. Specimens were collected, preserved, labeled, and studied. Corpses were sent for autopsies. Surviving soldiers were photographed, identified, and those graphic images of their injuries appeared in medical reports and […]
Read more...Supreme Confrontation: The Last Judicial Instances in the Spanish and American Civil Wars, Part II
ECW welcomes guest author Raúl C. Cancio Fernández See Part One here. It must be kept in mind when addressing this question that the Confederate Constitution of March 11th, 1861 was drafted on the structure of the Federal Constitution and, in particular, the provisions dedicated to the Supreme Court are practically identical in both texts. […]
Read more...Supreme Confrontation: The Last Judicial Instances in the Spanish and American Civil Wars, Part I
ECW welcomes guest author Raúl C. Cancio Fernández There is no greater tearing, no similar manifestation of physical, social and moral amputation as that generated by a civil war. At all levels: politics -or its absence-, culture, work, production, institutions… the entire institutional architecture is convulsed after the outbreak of fratricidal violence. And, of course, […]
Read more...Book Review: New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky
New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky. Edited by John David Smith. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2023. 360 pp, softcover $20.00, hardcover $30.00. Reviewed by Tim Talbott Scholarship on Civil War era Kentucky has flourished over the last 20 years or so. This is perhaps not surprising considering the state’s central geographical location […]
Read more...Les Miserables, the American Civil War, and War’s Scenes
Part of a Series While Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables is probably most remembered in literature studies for its social indictment and commentary, it has dramatic military scenes woven into its pages. Notably the battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) and the fight for the Paris barricades (June 5-6, 1832) gave Hugo an opportunity to explore […]
Read more...Les Miserables, the American Civil War, and The Plight of Orphans
Part of a Series Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still larger amount of sadness. It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, […]
Read more...The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and Jury Trials: Lincoln implicitly rejects a proslavery talking point
Abraham Lincoln, in his First Inaugural Address, said he considered it his duty to enforce the fugitives-from-service provision of the Constitution by seeing that slaves who fled from their masters would be sent back South. Lincoln added: “In any law upon this subject ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane […]
Read more...ECW Weekender: Tennessee State Museum
Tennessee ranks second (exceeded only by Virginia) as the most-embattled state of the Civil War. Numerous campaigns crossed the eastern mountains, rolling middle hills, and western flat-land regions of the state where opinions about the war starkly differed. Understanding the local and state history is key to getting perspective on the Civil War in this […]
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