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Time to Lay the Lost Cause to Rest, But Let’s Not Overreact
Every year about this time I expect to hear about the Lee-Jackson Day events in Virginia and normally I roll my eyes, take a deep breath, and forget about it—hoping that the Lost Cause will soon draw its last breath. … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Memory, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged Army War College, Lee Chapel, Lee-Jackson Day, Lost Cause, Robert E. Lee
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Ed Bonekemper’s Lost Cause Fact-Check (part two)
Part two of two During his adventures traveling the country, talking to Civil War groups, Edward Bonekemper III kept encountering the same Lost Cause quandary. “I continued to speak to well-informed groups of people and was surprised by the great … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Slavery
Tagged Ed Bonekemper, Edward Bonekemper, Gettysburg, James Longstreet, Lost Cause, Lost-Cause-Fact-Check, Memory, slavery
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Ed Bonekemper’s Lost Cause Fact-Check (part one)
Part one of two Historians debunked the myth of the Lost Cause decades ago, but it still defines the way many (if not most) Americans remember the narrative of the Civil War. Its influence on popular imagination holds sway over … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alan Nevins, Bruce Catton, civil rights, civil war memory, Ed Bonekemper, Edward Bonekemper, Jim Crow, Jubal Early, Lost Cause, Lost-Cause-Fact-Check, Memory, Shelby Foote, slavery, William Nelson Pendleton
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More ECW on C-SPAN
For those who’ve been following C-SPAN’s coverage of the Second Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, check out the latest two installments: Phill Greenwalt talked about the formation of the Lost Cause interpretation of the war. Emmanuel Dabney … Continue reading
Black Confederates
Today we are pleased to welcome back guest author Sam Smith The Civil War was a fiery prism at the center of American society. Every life entered the prism at its own angle and was refracted in its own way. … Continue reading
Shaping Chancellorsville: Conclusion
The final installment in a series In 2010, the update to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP) map denoted for the first time the location of the Day One battlefield even though it lies outside the park boundary. In its … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Memory, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Calvin Coolidge, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, FSNMP, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, Preservation, Robert E. Lee, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson
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Shaping Chancellorsville: The first reenactment and ‘The Last Meeting’
part five in a series In 1933, administration of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park was turned over to the National Park Service, and shortly thereafter, the NPS invited the Civilian Conservation Corps to come in to the park … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Memory, Monuments, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, CCC, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Civilian Conservation Corps, Crackerbox Meeting, Douglas Southall Freeman, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Jackson Shrine, James Power Smith, Lee-Jackson bivouac site, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Ralph Happel, reenacting, Robert E. Lee, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson, Virginia Military Institute, VMI
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Shaping Chancellorsville: How memories of the battle shaped the battlefield
part one in a series It has become the stuff of legends: Astride his horse, Traveller, Robert. E. Lee rides into the Chancellorsville clearing, the mansion in flames behind him, his men gathered ‘round with hats off, cheering wildly. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Memory, National Park Service, Preservation
Tagged Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville battlefield, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, FRSP, FSNMP, Gary Gallagher, lee's greatest victory, Lost Cause, Memory, National Park Service, NPS, Preservation, Robert E. Lee, Shaping-Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson
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Telling History vs. Making Art: “Frankly, my dear….”
Part three in a series As the horn section carries Max Steiner’s score from its overture into the sweeping, now-iconic strings of its main theme, Gone With the Wind opens with haggard-looking slaves returning from a hard day’s work set … Continue reading
