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Ch-ch-changes at emergingcivilwar.com
Get ready for a snazzy new look to the Emerging Civil War website! This week, we’ll be launching a complete redesign of our site intended to make your user experience easier. We also want to make it easier for readers to tap into our eleven-plus years of fantastic archival material. This project has been a […]
Read more...Happy Holidays from 1862—Drink Up! #1
To complement Sarah Kay Bierle’s outstanding work concerning holiday food, I thought I would chime in this year with a few posts about drinking–for the holidays, of course. America was founded as a nation of drunkards–er–drinkers. After all, water wasn’t pure, science was no help (yet), and milk had to be kept cold to stay […]
Read more...Civil War Medicine: Conclusion
Thank you for reading along with our recent series about Civil War medicine. Here’s the summary of the blog series, and we’re extending a “thank you” to all the authors who wrote about the topic over the last few weeks. Civil War Medicine: Introduction Civil War Medicine: Sound Medical Advice…Or Not (Sheritta Bitikofer)
Read more...Tonight – Fundraiser for Wreaths Across America
It’s tonight! If you’ve donated, thank you! And please check your inbox for the link for tonight’s virtual program. We’ve sent the link a couple times already and will send it one more time this afternoon. (If you are not able to watch the program live… We are planning to record the presentation and will […]
Read more...“Always willing to bear his part of the danger and hardship of his fellow soldiers”: A Story from Winchester National Cemetery
This year, Emerging Civil War is helping to support Wreaths Across America at Winchester National Cemetery through a fundraiser. We are only one week away from an evening virtual program about the cemetery. To whet your appetite for history and showcase the work ECW editors have done preparing for this program, today we are sharing […]
Read more...ECW Podcast: Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is one of America’s most poignant holiday events. This year, Emerging Civil War is helping support efforts at Winchester National Cemetery. Sarah Kay Bierle and her mom, Susan Bierle, talk about the project and a special event sponsored by ECW to support it. Listen for free here on our website or by […]
Read more...Of Monuments & Winchester National Cemetery
From the research desk! I’ve been getting ready for Emerging Civil War’s fundraiser for Wreath Across America, and this past week some of my favorite sources are the commemorative books published after several Union veterans touring trips to battlefields in the decades after the Civil War. The group known as “Sheridan’s Veterans” planned and conducted […]
Read more...August 2022 Newsletter Available!
Yes, it’s September, but did you get your August 2022 ECW Newsletter earlier this week, before the calendar flipped months? We had a lot of news last month. If you missed the newsletter, you missed:
Read more...From Chicory to Cigar Stumps: Confederate Coffee Alternatives in the Civil War
In just about any firsthand account of the Civil War, it’s striking how heavily coffee features in the day to day lives of soldiers. Like many of us today, both Union and Confederate troops found coffee to be absolutely essential as a stimulant, a source of warmth and comfort, and a ritual to congregate around. […]
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