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Category: Civil War Blogging

  • Two New Civil War Blogs

    I missed two other new Civil War blogs when introducing Not In Memoriam, But In Defense the other day. Luckily, Mike Koepke has sharper eyes than I do. The two other new blogs are Civil War Women by “Maggiemac” and The American Civil War by Adam Hendel. I’ve added links on the left to these […]

  • Of Blogs, Web Sites, and Presses

    As we’ve been discussing university presses lately I’d recommend everyone take a few minutes to read Scott McLemee’s recent article in Inside Higher Ed on blogs and university presses. McLemee points out that in general university presses are woefully ignorant of the power of the web, which confirms my own impressions of the admittedly small […]

  • Andy MacIsaac’s First Maine Forward Has Moved

    Andy has moved First Maine Forward to Typepad. The new address is: http://maineheavies.typepad.com/first_maine_forward/, Change your bookmarks if you haven’t already!

  • Old Military History in New Bottles

    I may as well weigh in on the military history debate also. My take, speaking as a reader and after reading a lot of it, is that at present amateurs write the best military history. By far. By amateurs I mean “not professional historians.” Some examples are Gordon Rhea and Eric Wittenberg, both lawyers who […]

  • New Military History: My View

    In three interesting posts, Kevin Levin, Eric Wittenberg, and Drew Wagenhoffer have weighed in on New Military History. I posted my feelings on the subject on all three blogs, and I thought it might be interesting to share my thoughts on my own blog as well. The following few paragraphs are my comments, verbatim: Drew, […]

  • Not in Memoriam, But In Defense: A New Civil War Blog

    We have another entry in the Civil War blogging community. Thanks to Eric Wittenberg for pointing this one out. Sarah, a Harvard student, discusses her summer research project involving Confederate monuments in three Southern towns: Richmond, Virginia; Stone Mountain, Georgia; and Moulton, Alabama. I’m particularly interested in Sarah’s findings concerning the Richmond monuments. In any […]

  • Another New Civil War Blog…

    Thanks to Mike Koepke and Andy Etman for informing me of another Civil War Blog, entitled Seeing the Elephant (recreated). Here’s blog author Eric’s initial post, in his own words: This is my first post for this blog, so I’ll introduce myself, and the angle I hope to take with this blog. My name is […]