Category: Guest Blogging
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Ft. Stevens & More
fred ray fort stevens washington shock troops of the confederacy
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Bruce Levine – Confederate Emancipation
For the past two years I’ve been more interested in the historiography of the Civil War than the actual events itself. The historiography through memory writing school is relatively new to the Civil War history scene, led by historians like David Blight, but it’s making steady progress. While most works (including this site) still focus […]
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Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Being a history major and frequenting various history related websites, one cannot help but be inundated by narrative based pop histories, usually to my disdain. In fact, this book, controversial in the blogosphere if not on Amazon, only arrived at my house because I proved too lazy to preempt the Book Club from sending it […]
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Assessing Civil War magazines
I’m delighted that Brett has begun comments on the content of various Civil War magazines – in my opinion, they don’t receive enough attention. I would like to talk about assessing these various publications and the criterion we use. As many know, Civil War Times is the oldest continuously running (since 1962). CWT is owned […]
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Veteran’s Day, World War I and Civil War Historiography
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, formal hostilities during the Great War came to an end with the German signing of an armistice. Though the United States had not participated in the war to the same extent as European nations, Armistice Day immediately became a day of […]
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New Book on Rose Greenhow
Her secret messages changed the course of the Civil War. After she was arrested by the famed detective Allan Pinkerton, an enraged President Lincoln had her thrown in prison with her 8-year-old daughter. She defied her captors until, fed up, the Union banished her to the South, where President Jefferson Davis gave her a huge […]
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Civil War Magazines
Thought I’d piggy-back a bit on Brett’s blog regarding magazines such as Civil War Times, America’s Civil War, etc. I happen to write for ACW, and I too am pleased that lately such magazines (which have been more of the ‘pop’ ilk compared to such productions like Blue&Gray and North&South) are stepping up their quality. […]