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A Conversation with Emma Murphy (part one)
(part one of five) As we continue our series of interviews for Women’s History Month, we spend time this week with Emma Murphy, a park guide at Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greenville, Tennessee. Emma has a bachelor’s degree in history/Civil War studies from Gettysburg College, and a master’s degree in public history from […]
Read more...Stephen Crane’s “Veteran”
Many Civil War buffs have read Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, lauded as one of the best war novels of all time, of any war. The book “stands by itself in nineteenth-century English and American war fiction,” literary scholar Eric Solomon once said. “Indeed, it is still the masterwork in English among the abundance […]
Read more...A Conversation with Hallowed Ground‘s Mary Koik (part one)
(part one of a four-part series) For Women’s History Month this year, ECW Editor-in-Chief Chris Mackowski interviewed several women who work in the field of Civil War public history. This week, we share Chris’s conversation with Mary Koik, editor of Hallowed Ground, the member magazine for the Civil War Trust. She also does freelance work […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Feb. 26-Mar. 4
It has been another busy week here at Emerging Civil War. We featured another post on one of our Symposium speakers (tickets are still available here), closed out Black History Month and welcomed in Women’s History Month. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Chris Mackowski
For this year’s Sunday morning battlefield, Chris Mackowski will be leading us across the very ground where one of the biggest turning points in the Confederate war effort happened, Chancellorsville. In this week’s symposium spotlight, Chris previews his battlefield tour focusing on the death of Stonewall Jackson. Don’t forget you can still purchase your tickets for […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Feb. 12-18
It was a busy week here at Emerging Civil War. We had a number of great posts from our authors on Black History Month and Valentine’s Day. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...Floodwaters and Ghost Fog at Catharine Furnace
When the weather’s been good enough, I’ve been jogging on the Chancellorsville battlefield (or, when I have my 10-month-old with me, walking him in his stroller). The past two days have drenched us with monsoonal rain, but the temperatures have been warm. When the rain finally let up this afternoon, the thermometer was just shy […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review: 15-21 January
We’ve had another busy week here at ECW as we prepare for our site migration next week. While our authors continue to produce great content, there will not be any activity on the site next week so as not to interrupt the migration. You may click on the links below to read each post.
Read more...Book Review: “Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War”
There have been legions of studies done about the corps of the Army of the Potomac and its fighting units. Authors have filled shelves with monographs about the Iron and Irish Brigades, or the 20th Maine. Guides have told and retold the heroics of John Reynolds and Winfield Scott Hancock But throughout those years and […]
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