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ECW Honors Gary Gallagher with Award for Service in the Field of Civil War Public History
Emerging Civil War has selected Dr. Gary W. Gallagher as the 2021 recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in the Field of Civil War Public History. The award recognizes the work of an individual or organization that … Continue reading
The 2021 ECW Symposium–Happy 10th Birthday!
What a birthday celebration ECW had over the weekend to celebrate our tenth year. Thank you to everyone who showed up to make our Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge such a success. For those who weren’t able to … Continue reading
ECW’s January Bookshelf
Do you need some ideas about what books to read next from your collection? Look no further than the current list of what ECW’s members are reading this month! Let us know what books you are currently reading in the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books & Authors
Tagged 83rd Pennsylvania, A Contest of Civilizations, A Politician Turned General, Amos Judson, Andrew Bledsoe, Andrew Lang, Chris Mackowski, Civil Rights Movement, Gary Gallagher, Germantown, Hampton Newsome, Jeffrey Lash, Jeffrey William Hunt, Jon Meacham, Louis DeCaro, Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station, Michael Gorra, Michael Harris, Patsy Palombo, Shields Green, The Fight for the Old State, The Saddest Words, Upon the Fields of Battle
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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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A Useable History: Partisanship, Citizenship, and the Presidential Election
In the introduction to Gary Gallagher’s new book The Enduring Civil War, Gallagher talks about his own Civil War origins. “My lifelong interest in the Civil War era stems from its profusion of dramatic events, compelling personalities, unlikely political and … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Politics, Ties to the War
Tagged citizenship, election of 1860, Elections, Gary Gallagher, Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War, Joanne Freeman, Lincoln, Lincoln's speech to the young men's lyceum, partisanship, The Enduring Civil War, The Field of Blood, useable history
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Gary Gallagher and The Enduring Civil War—An Exclusive Interview
Few would argue that Gary Gallagher has been one of the most influential voices in Civil War history over the past four decades. As a scholar, he’s made a point to remain firmly connected with the broader, non-academic Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Personalities
Tagged Civil War Times, Dana Shoaf, Gary Gallagher, The Enduring Civil War
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Preview: Gary Gallagher Interview
Gary Gallagher has a new book coming out next week, The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (LSU Press, 2020). I was fortunate to sit down with Gary the other day to talk about the new book, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged Civil War Times, Dana Shoaf, Gary Gallagher, The Enduring Civil War
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BookChat with Cody Marrs, author of Not Even Past
As a big fan of the Civil War in pop culture, I was especially looking forward to Cody Marrs’ new book Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War, which deals with the ways “the story … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Lincoln, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alice Fahs, Birth of a Nation, BookChat, Cody Marrs, D. W. Griffith, David Blight, Edward Pollard, emancipation, Evelyn Scott, Fire on the Mountain, Gary Gallagher, Gone with the Wind, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jubilee, Lioncoln, Margaret Walker, Mark Twain, Memory, Not Even Past, Reconstruction, Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, Terry Bisson, The Lost Cause, The Wave, W.E.B. DuBois, William Faulkner
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A Conversation with Carol Reardon (part six)
(part six in a series) To help commemorate Women’s History Month, I’m talking this week with Carol Reardon. In yesterday’s segment, she talked about ways that she has learned, as an academic and a public historian, to reach wider and … Continue reading
E.P. Alexander’s Research Methodology
Every Civil War scholar should be familiar with the writings of Confederate First Corps artillerist Edward Porter Alexander (no relation). Many know him through Gary Gallagher’s compilation of his papers from the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North … Continue reading
