Tag Archives: Stone Mountain

Echoes of Reconstruction: Black History Month and the Erasure of Black History

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Emerging Civil War

ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I remember taking my kids to visit Stone Mountain in Georgia around 1991. At the time, the “park” was a sort of Confederate Disneyland that mixed faux Civil … Continue reading →

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A Backstage Tour of the Atlanta Cyclorama (part three)

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

(part three of four) We continue today our behind-the-scenes tour of the Atlanta cyclorama at the Atlanta History Center’s Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker Cyclorama Building. Our guide is Dr. Gordon Jones, chief military historian and curator for the museum. … Continue reading →

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Day One: Stone Mountain

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Chris Mackowski

Part three in a series Stonewall Jackson has always loomed large in my family’s life. He’s the reason Stephanie fell in love with the Civil War back when she was four, and her love affair dragged us all with it. … Continue reading →

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