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Podcast Additional Resources: “Making Civil War Maps”
Last week we released the podcast episode with Edward Alexander, Dan Welch, and Chris Mackowski talking about Civil War cartography in the 1860’s and the modern era. Edward has recently launched his own business, creating historical maps. He shares about some of his sources, challenges, and successes. Today, we’ve collected some of Edward’s maps and […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Jericho’s Mill
For our final week of our Symposium Spotlight series, we preview the Sunday morning tour for this year’s 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium. Fitting in perfectly with our theme of “Forgotten Battles,” our own Bert Dunkerly will be leading us on an in-depth tour of the Jericho’s Mill battlefield. Bert sent along the following highlights […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Secessionville
Welcome back to another installment of our 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium Spotlight. This week, Dan Welch previews his talk on the forgotten 1862 battle of Secessionville. Why has it been forgotten? What lessons came out of the engagements for Union and Confederate authorities? What can we take away from the battle today in 2019? […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: “‘So Doth History Repeat Itself’: The Battle of Williamsburg”
In this installment of our 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium Spotlight we feature Drew Gruber. Drew will be presenting on the oft forgotten battle of Williamsburg. Don’t forget to register for the 2019 Emerging Civil War Symposium today! Click here to go to our full 2019 Symposium webpage.
Read more...Facebook Cover Photo: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
The Medal of Honor was created during the Civil War, and since then over 3,500 have been awarded for gallantry to members of the American armed forces. But of those recipients, only one has been a woman. Mary Edwards Walker was born in upstate New York on November 26, 1832. Her father was a doctor, […]
Read more...Preservation News: Preserving History Digitally
In this age of the Internet, professional and amateur historians have the ability to research – and preserve – history digitally. Since the advent of the twenty-first century, we can now scour digital archives, find rare academic articles in databases, and discover thousands of new photographs and diaries never-before seen. In this week’s Preservation News, […]
Read more...Civil War Cookin’: Is This A Tradition?
In 2016, I shared some Civil War-related stories about food during the week of Thanksgiving. I found some more stories for 2017, and Chris Mackowski dubbed that year’s features “second helpings.” Now, it’s the week of Thanksgiving, and I’m excited to share that there are a few more Civil War stories about food that I’ll […]
Read more...A Conversation with Brian Steel Wills about Inglorious Passages (part one)
(part one of two) When I first read Brian Steel Wills’ book Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War, I had to let it sit with me for a bit. By that, I mean that I’d had such a powerful reading experience that I needed time to process it, to let it sink […]
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