Category: Miscellaneous

  • On to Richmond

    I was in Richmond last week speaking to the Richmond Civil War Round Table and of course visiting various book stores and museums. The talk was memorable—I was about halfway through the presentation when BOOM! there was a huge clap of thunder and the lights went out. For a time we really did feel we’d […]

  • Nominate Your Favorite Posts for History Carnival 78 Today!

    The 78th Edition of the long running History Carnival will be appearing at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog on July 1, 2009.  If you love history blogs, make sure you are on the lookout for excellent blog entries.  When you see one, nominate it for this edition of the Carnival prior to July 1 […]

  • Joseph Whitworth video

    Bill Adams sends along the url for a short feature on Sir Joseph Whitworth, concentrating more on Whitworth’s personality (rather prickly) and inventions (the micrometer, among others). The narrator’s knowledge of firearms and things military is marginal, as where he says that the British Army should have adopted it and that it would have given […]

  • Short Takes

    Real world has been intruding again, leaving little time for blogging. Nevertheless… A group of academics, some of them historians, urged President Obama not to lay a wreath at the Confederate memorial in Arlington on Memorial Day. One of them was James McPherson. Now my opinion of McP has been declining for a while, as […]

  • R.I.P. David H. Donald

    I learned the sad news this morning through several fellow Civil War bloggers that David Herbert Donald, renowned Lincoln scholar, passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. Donald is widely regarded as having penned the best single volume biography of Abraham Lincoln among his many other books on the Civil War.  The New […]

  • Whither the History (?) Channel

    Is a channel that spends more time on gangs, monsters, and prophecies really about history? Eric Wittenberg weighed in on the subject last year, and teacher Betsy Newmark is the latest to take aim with a hilarious but (but oh-so-true) graphic. It’s basically info that would appeal to a toddler boy playing with his toy […]

  • TOCWOC Reader Tools: How to Use the ShareThis Feature

    Note: This post is one of a series on TOCWOC Reader Tools,  tools which allow you the reader to better navigate through what is a rapidly growing blog to find/do exactly what you came here for. I thought I’d give readers a brief look at the new ShareThis feature I’ve implemented here at TOCWOC – […]