Category: Civil War
Around the Web January 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Because it was the Holiday Season, December was a little lighter on social media than other months, but there was still plenty of interesting new…
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Wins A.M. Pate Award for Trans-Mississippi Civil War History
The 2022 A.M. Pate Award for the best book on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi has been awarded to Fay Yarbrough for her book…
Patchogue, Long Island, Civil War Soldier Monument Photo Tour
Patchogue, New York is on Long Island. A bustling village that tens of thousands use as a port to travel to Fire Island in the…
Did Civil War Era Southerners Really Think of Their States As Their Countries?
I engage with hundreds of people on social media in conversations about the Civil War and Reconstruction. One thing I have heard many times in…
Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery to Be Removed-But What to Do With It?
One of the most controversial Confederate monuments is the massive one at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington D.C. For nearly a decade calls for…
A Third of the People Depicted in Art at the National Capitol in Washington are Enslavers
I have posted before about the Washington Post‘s study of slavery and the United States Capitol. Today the Post discusses the representation of slaveholders in…
David Blight Tries to Answer the Question of Whether the Civil War Was Inevitable
David Blight, the Yale historian who has been a leading interpreter of the Civil War Era for more than a quarter century, has an extended…
Fort Foote: A Key Defense of Washington D.C. Photo Tour
I recently attended a conference at National Harbor in Maryland, which gave me the opportunity to visit Fort Foote. This fort was built during the…
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard
Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life by Elizabeth D. Leonard Published by University of North Carolina Press (2022) One of the Civil War social…
Photo Tour of the Parrott Gun from Admiral Farragut’s Flagship U.S.S. Hartford in Freeport, N.Y.
On July 4, 1902 the Village of Freeport on Long Island in New York State was honored with the placement of a Parrott Rifle from…
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