2022 ECW Symposium Early Bird Ticket – $200.00
ECW Archives
-
Recent Posts
- Echoes of Reconstruction: E. P. Alexander in Washington and the Lincoln Assassination
- Symposium Spotlight: Brian Matthew Jordan
- The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: All Hell Can’t Stop Them
- The November 2021 ECW Newsletter Now Available
- A Most Terrible Scene: A Collision on the B&O and One Regiment’s Deadliest Day
Search by Post Categories
Subscribe BY RSS
Email Subscription
Tag Archives: Harry Turtledove
Manticores, Myths, and Memory (part two)
(Part two of four) Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill are co-authors of the latest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Southern Illinois University Press). In yesterday’s opening … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Personalities
Tagged E. L. Doctorow, Ed Caudill, Engaging with the Civil War Series, Forrest Gump, Frederick Whittaker, George Armstrong Cuter, Gone with the Wind, Harry Turtledove, Inventing Custer, John Mosby, Little Bighorn, Manticore Quartet, manticores, manticores-myths-and-memory, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Paul Ashdown, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, The Gray Ghost, The March, Twilight Zone, William Faulkner, William T. Sherman, Winston Groom
1 Comment
CW & Pop Culture: Robert E. Lee and The Guns of the South: 1992 vs. 2019
In the 1990s it was common enough at my New Orleans high school to see copies of Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South. It offered a beguiling and humorous image of Robert E. Lee in his classic pose, only … Continue reading
What About What-If?
Our question of the week this morning, which dealt with a hypothetical what-if scenario, coincidentally touched on something that’s been on my own mind lately. Do you have your own favorite Civil War alternative history? If so, what is it, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged alternative history, Harry Turtledove, How Few Remain, what-if
10 Comments
Harry Turtledove, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Beatles
You’ve got Turtledove’s Fort Pillow (2006)? Turn to page 140, and a Tennessee cavalryman cries, “Get back, Jojo!” …which has led me over these years to wonder if the esteemed author sprinkles a Beatles lyrics line into his other novels—alternative fiction, science … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, USCT
Tagged Beatles, fiction, Fort Pillow, Harry Turtledove, USCT
3 Comments
Telling History vs. Making Art: Fictions and Histories
Final part of a series “[H]istory and historical fiction,” says historian Paul Ashdown, “are alternate ways of telling stories about the past.”[1] In that context, Ulysses S. Grant spoke more truth than he realized when he said “Wars produce many … Continue reading
