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Saving History Saturday: Battlefield Preservation Grants Awarded
The National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) recently awarded $2,347,080 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants to four projects, including three Civil War preservation projects. The two of the projects are in Virginia and the third is in Mississippi, and total $1,260,774
Read more...Perpetual Beacons? Lighthouses & The Civil War
During a political campaign speech in 1860, John C. Breckinridge — the current vice presidential and one of the Democratic Party’s candidates for the executive office — addressed rumors that circulated about him and his views on slavery and states rights. He took the stance that duly elected leaders’ will had to be accepted and […]
Read more...Civil War Cooking: Theodore Dodge’s Boiled Beans with Curry
The winter of 1862-1863 for the Union’s Army of the Potomac has been compared to the Valley Forge hardships of the Revolutionary War decades earlier. For the Civil War soldiers, morale plummeted after the Battle of Fredericksburg and year of losses in the east. Huddled in huts and muddy camps, the Union volunteers contemplated if […]
Read more...Collaborating Toward a Global History of the US Civil War
Transnational studies over the past two decades have contributed much to placing the US Civil War into a broader, transatlantic perspective. Enrico Dal Lago’s review essay in the June, 2021 issue of The Journal of the Civil War Era provides a historiographical summary of these new approaches and challenges his peers to expand these avenues […]
Read more...Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction
One of the things I love most about the Civil War community is that books are such a major part of our overall culture. I love a good book, and love the fact that so many people around me love good books, too. That’s true for a well-written, well-researched story, and it’s true for a […]
Read more...Congratulations to Larry Babits for his Rev War work
Congratulations to Civil War News Editor Lawrence E. Babits for being listed as the author of one of the “Five Best Books on the American Revolution” in the Wall Street Journal recently. The Top-Five list included Larry’s 1998 book A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. The list appeared in the July 2, […]
Read more...Idealistic Uncle and Cynical Nephew: Lucius Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, and the Civil War – Part 1
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Max Longley… Part One: 1859 – Lucius’ prewar influence on Ambrose? Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was a journalist, satirist and writer of short stories about war and the supernatural who acquired literary fame over several decades and then mysteriously disappeared. Ambrose was famous for his harsh wit, which he […]
Read more...Saving History Saturday: Award For Preservation at Cool Spring Battlefield
The following text is an official press release from American Battlefield Trust, shared on April 22, 2021. AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST, SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY HONORED FOR WORK AT VIRGINIA’S COOL SPRING BATTLEFIELD Wingate Mackay-Smith Clarke County Land Conservation Award recognizes the partnership that transformed a former golf course into a battlefield park and an outdoor classroom The American Battlefield Trust and Shenandoah […]
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