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Tag Archives: John Coski
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 Conversation with John Coski (conclusion)
Part six of six I’ve been talking with John Coski, historian at the American Civil War Museum and recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. As we wrap up our conversation today, … Continue reading
A Conversation with John Coski (part five)
Part five of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, recipient of the 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John might be best known to the public for his work on the history of the … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities
Tagged 13th Wisconsin, 17th Virginia, America's Civil War, American Civil War Museum, Civil Sar Monitor, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Douglas Southall Freeman, Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, James Thomas Petty, John Coski, Mike Musick, Museum of the Confederacy, Susie Harrison, Ted Savas, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Museum of History and Culture
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A Conversation with John Coski (part four)
Part four of six John Coski is the 2019 recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John worked as a historian at the Museum of the Confederacy before its recent evolution into the American Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Personalities
Tagged "Prince John" Magruder, American Civil War Museum, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Charleston shooting, Christy Coleman, Confederate Battle Flag, Conversation-with-John-Coski, John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy
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A Conversation with John Coski (part three)
Part three of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, recipient of ECW’s 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. John works as a historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and, prior to … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged A Woman's War, American Civil War Museum, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Before Freedom Came, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Embattled Emblem, John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy, National Park Service, Ruth Ann Coski, The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson
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A Conversation with John Coski (part two)
Part two of six I’m talking this week with John Coski, historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond and recipient of ECW’s 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History. In recounting his “origin story” yesterday, … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities
Tagged American Civil War Museum, Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Baptized in Blood, Before Freedom Came, Berkeley Plantation, Charles Wilson, Confederate Memorial Literacy Society, Conversation-with-John-Coski, Hollins University, Jefferson Davis, John Coski, Lost Cause, Museum of the Confederacy, Ruth Ann Coski, Virginia Historical Society, White House of the Confederacy
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A Conversation with John Coski (part one)
Part one of six In August, ECW present its 2019 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History to John Coski, historian with the American Civil War Museum in Richmond (and, prior to its merger, with the … Continue reading
Posted in National Park Service, Personalities
Tagged Civil Wargasm, College of William and Mary, Conversation-with-John-Coski, David Lilly, Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History, Francis Butler Simkins, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Collection, John Coski, National Park Service, Rob Hodge, Ruth Ann Coski, safety valve thesis, Tony Horwitz
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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
America’s Most Embattled Emblem
No one can speak more intelligently about the Confederate flag than John Coski, author of The Confederate Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem and a historian with the American Civil War Museum. In the midst of the current controversy in South … Continue reading
