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Suggested Readings for Our Troubled Times
Crazy times. We seem to be living through ’em right now. The temperature is running hot. People feel anxious, confused, hopeful and hateful. How do we make sense of it all? Well, in an effort to offer our readers some … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Ties to the War
Tagged Adams Vs. Jefferson, Allen Guelzo, American Heritage, books, Caroline Janney, Confederate Flag, David Blight, David M. Potter, David McCullough, David Steward, Dixie's Daughters, Gary Gallagher, Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War, If Elected, It's Even Worse than It Looks, James P. Muehlberger, Joanne Freeman, John Adams, John Coski, John Ferling, Karen Cox, Lincoln and Douglas, Michael F. Holt, Norman Ornstein, Race & Reunion, Race and Reunion, reading list, Remembering the Civil War, Sebastian Junger, The 116, The Field of Blood, The Historian's Use of Nationalism and Vice Versa, The Inner Civil War, The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, The Political Crisis of the 1850s, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Summer of 1787, The Third Reich, Thomas Childers, Thomas E. Mann, Tribe, William Shirer
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The Confederate Army Never Invaded the U. S. Capitol. On January 6, 2021, Their Battle Flag Was There.
On January 6, 2021, I was appalled to see that the United States Capitol was invaded and trashed, with people killed. Americans did this to their own Capitol because of lies told by the President and his supporters. On top of … Continue reading
Posted in Slavery, Ties to the War
Tagged assault on the capitol, Battle of Fort Stevens, Confederate Flag, insurrection, Jubal Early, racism
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The Confederate Flag and the Assault on the Capitol
How does one process the image of a Confederate battle flag in the United States Capitol? “Trump did what Lee, Jackson, and Davis couldn’t in four years,” a colleague texted me as the first images of insurrectionists started appearing on … Continue reading
JFK’s Arrival in Dallas
On this date, in 1963, at 11:38 a.m., President John F. Kennedy touched down at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. He’d spoken that morning at a breakfast in Fort Worth and was slated to speak at a business lunch at … Continue reading
ECW Honors John Coski with Public Service Award
Emerging Civil War has selected John Coski as the recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. The Award for Service in Civil War Public History recognizes the work of an individual or … Continue reading
Confederates by the Boatload
I’ll let the following photos generally speak for themselves. I wanted to share them, mostly, so I could use the phrase “Confederates by the boatload.”
Confederate Heritage: Getting it Wrong on Independence Day Weekend
I generally try to be empathetic about Confederate heritage issues, but a lot of times, hardcore neo-Confederates make it hard for me. For every reasonable voice I hear, I run into a guy like this one: a lone flag bearer … Continue reading
The Future of Civil War History: Kevin Pawlak
Civil War history has perhaps never been so prevalent to Americans than it is today. With the close of the sesquicentennial and the onset of the so-called Confederate culture wars, the story of our nation’s greatest struggle still resonates with … Continue reading
Confederate Heritage: “Heaven Knows, a Hard Topic to Discuss.”
Later today, I’ll visit with my friends at the North Carolina Civil War Roundtable. Rather than a traditional program on some aspect of the war, they’ve asked me to follow up on some comments I made after Lee-Jackson Day in Lexington, … Continue reading
Some Thoughts on Lee-Jackson Day
The weather could not have been more beautiful in Lexington, Virginia, on Saturday morning as hundreds of Confederate devotees gathered for the annual Lee-Jackson Day commemoration. The day itself—still observed as a legal holiday in parts of Virginia—falls on January … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War Events, Holidays, Memory
Tagged Confederate Culture Wars, Confederate Flag, Confederate memory, Lee Chapel, Lee-Jackson Day, Lexington, Memory, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Stonewall Jackson House, Virginia Flaggers, Washington & Lee, Washington and Lee University
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