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Book Review: Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness
This latest offering from Savas Beatie is a reissue of Mark J. Crawford’s Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness, originally published by McFarland & Company, Inc. in 2000. As far as I can tell there are no additions or updates to the original. This nicely sized (7″ x 10″) […]
Read more...Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address
The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften Savas Beatie, LLC 2016 On November 19, 1863, after a two hour oration by featured speaker Edward Everett at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln rose to deliver a few remarks. Lincoln spoke for less than three […]
Read more...Book Review: “Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 and the Controversy that Brought Down a General”
It is difficult to choose a dissertation topic in military history, especially about the American Civil War. No matter how good an idea seems at first, a little digging around and one finds that others have also been intrigued by the same idea. Still, not all that much had been written about the Battle of […]
Read more...Week in Review: June 5 to June 11
It has been a busy week at Emerging Civil War. We continued our preview of speaker topics for the 2017 Symposium. Additionally, a new Series “My Favorite Historical Person”, kicked off Friday, June 9. Here is a recap of all our posts from June 5 to June 11. You may click on each of the […]
Read more...Book Review: Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln & the Union’s War Governors by Stephen D. Engle
The study of the American Civil War is changing. Of course, there will always be battle studies and biographies of generals, but there is a pivot away from this strictly military point of view. Scholars are examining the war in a much more global context, and this includes the politics of the era. Helping to […]
Read more...Year In Review: Future Of Civil War History
One of the special blog series we featured June – August 2016 was “The Future of Civil War History.” As we find ourselves looking back to 2016 from the first day of 2017, it seems appropriate to review this series and gain fresh inspiration for learning, teaching, and sharing in the new year. The Future of Civil War […]
Read more...The Year in Review 2016: #5
Pop Culture has always served as a useful and important way for the public to engage with Civil War history. The fall 2015-16 television season saw another high-profile example when PBS broadcast the Civil War hospital drama Mercy Street. Guest author Paige Gibbons Backus, who supervises a Civil War medicine-related historical site in Prince William […]
Read more...Year In Review: Symposium Spotlight
On August 5-7, 2016 Emerging Civil War hosted our third annual historical symposium. The 2016 theme was “Great Attacks” and was enjoyed by members and attendees. Hosted at Stevenson Ridge, the event included a question-and-answer panel, delicious meals, and a walking tour of the Second Battle of Fredericksburg. Keynote speaker James Ogden shared about James Longstreet’s […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: How Many Union Soldiers Occupied the South During Reconstruction?
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Last year, I was talking about researching the Reconstruction Era at a Civil War Roundtable, and a man there said that he loves the Civil War, but he doesn’t read anything about Reconstruction. I told him that was similar to […]
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