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Symposium Preview with Rob Orrison
by ECW Correspondent Jordan Vollmer More than 100 people are already registered to attend the Fifth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge slated for this summer. Rob Orrison, co-organizer of this year’s event, gives the credit to this year’s theme. “Turning Points of the American Civil War” ties into the book Turning Points […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review March 4-11
It has been another busy week here at Emerging Civil War. Our authors have been hard at work with more great content. We kicked off Women’s History Month, profiled another Symposium speaker (tickets are still available here) and highlighted a recent publication by Savas Beatie, LLC that will benefit historians, scholars and students for years […]
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...ECW Week in Review Feb. 19-25
February moves on and we had another busy week at Emerging Civil War. Spring-like conditions around the Fredericksburg, Virginia area prompted weather related posts, we continued our Symposium Spotlight series and had a number of great posts. 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 […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Dec. 31-Jan. 7
ECW has welcomed in the New Year. We’ve had a busy first week of 2018 with a number of fantastic posts. We finished up our Year in Review 2017 with our most-read post and had a special announcement regarding our upcoming site migration, which is now scheduled for the week of January 15. You may […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Dec. 24-31
As 2017 comes to a close, ECW observed some of our annual traditions both on Christmas and in the week leading up to New Year’s Day. Happy New Year!!!
Read more...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 […]
Read more...ECW Week in Review Dec. 4-10
The first full week of December moves on. We’ve had a number of great posts, including pieces on our recent release with Southern Illinois University Press, Turning Points of the Civil War. We also announced that ECW will join with the National Park Service, the Civil War Trust and other historians for the Trust’s Facebook Live events for the […]
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