Category: Civil War on the Web
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New-York Historical Society Lincoln Exhibit Opens October 9
Timothy Wroten of the New-York Historical Society (yes the hyphen is meant to be there) sent in a nice message detailing the opening of a new Abraham Lincoln Exhibit set to occur on October 9, 2009. The exhibit will explore Lincoln and his relationship with New York City and will run until March 25, 2010. […]
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Top 10 Amazon.com Abraham Lincoln Bestsellers: July 2009
Due to the growing number of Abraham Lincoln books being released, I will now be doing a monthly Amazon.com Top 10 Abraham Lincoln Books series in addition to the Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War Books series. Readers who are looking for Abraham Lincoln books can’t go wrong selecting titles from this list. As in each […]
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Manuscript of Burlingame’s Massive Lincoln Biography Offered FREE Online at Knox College
Michael Burlingame’s massive two-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is being offered for free online at Knox College in unedited manuscript form (ht to Mike Kienzler of the Abraham Lincoln Observer). This is stunning news. A two-volume book which currently goes for over $100 at Amazon.com is now available to researchers everywhere, even those who may […]
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How Do You Pronounce These Civil War Names and Places?
While listening to Volume 1 of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War, A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville as an audiobook on my iPod during the drive to and from work, I’ve noticed a LOT of names and places being butchered by the narrator. And then I got to thinking. How do I *know* […]
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History Carnival 77 at Airminded
History Carnival 77 for June 2009 has been posted at Brett Holman’s Airminded blog. There were several Civil War entries this time around and a lot of interesting items from other areas of history. The History Carnival is moving from one Brett to another next month, as I will be hosting History Carnival 78 right […]
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Top 10 Civil War Blogs Redux
I recently came up with a list of the Top 10 Civil War Blogs I read on a daily basis, and inadvertently omitted Rene Tyree’s excellent Wig-Wags blog from my list. With that omission in mind, I reflected on those blogs which narrowly missed the cut and decided to come up with another list of […]
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The History Guys Explore Grave Subjects: A History of Death and Mourning
I received a very interesting email from Lydia at Back Story Radio. Lydia writes: Brett, I thought that you and your readers would be interested in our Memorial Day episode of the public radio show “BackStory with the American History Guys.” Civil War historian Ed Ayers talks with historian (and Harvard President) Drew Gilpin Faust […]