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Symposium Spotlight: The Schedule

We are pleased to announce our schedule of speakers and events for the 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium. Please read on to see all of the great presentations we have in store.

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Symposium Spotlight: Forgotten Battles

We have a fantastic line-up of topics slated for our upcoming Sixth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, where we’ll be focusing on “Forgotten Battles.” We want to ask you about your own favorite forgotten battle but first, let’s take a look at that line-up:

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Symposium Spotlight: Books, Books, Books, Pt. 2

  Welcome back to part two of our recommended reading list as part of our Symposium Spotlight series. We hope these books will get you excited about a summer reading list on this year’s theme “Forgotten Battles of the Civil War.” Have you picked up any books from part one of our series? Have you […]

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Week In Review: April 22-28, 2019

It’s time for the grand review of the week at Emerging Civil War. You’ll find a variety of articles this week from studies on John Pope and Counter-Insurgency, to history of a statue, discussion of slavery, birthday wishes for General Grant, and much more!

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Robert Dickey: Killer Turned Soldier

Henry St. Clair flew off the porch of Henry Bicksler’s tavern and shouted into the evening air, “God damn your soul, Bob Dickey, what did you hit me for?” Onlookers watched as Robert Dickey turned to face his accuser, and the two men were soon landing blows on one another. But the fight did not […]

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2019 ECW Symposium Announcement

We have some very exciting ECW Symposium information to share with you today, our full lineup of speakers for the 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium. And, over the coming weeks we will be bringing you speaker biographies, sneak peaks at their talks, suggested reading lists to get you excited about their topics, special rate lodging […]

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Year In Review 2017: ECW Blog Series

It’s been a full year with wonderful articles on Emerging Civil War Blog. Take a moment to review the officially coordinate series and some of the multi-post articles featured this year! Modern Civil War Photography My Favorite Historical Person A Monumental Discussion Battlefield Markers & Monuments

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ECW Week in Review Dec. 17-24

Holiday Greetings from all of us at ECW! The week before Christmas is always busy and the same can be said here. We’ve had a number of great posts this week related to Christmas and other subjects, including the recent ECW Symposium and our upcoming site migration. You may click on the links bellow to […]

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ECW Week in Review Oct. 2-8

The first full week of October is in the books at Emerging Civil War. We had a number of posts this week and a continuation of one of our ongoing series. Additionally, we highlighted not only our Fourth Annual Symposium from this past August, but our upcoming Fifth Annual Symposium which is scheduled for August […]

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