Category: Miscellaneous
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A Guide to Writing Bad History
Writing history is one thing, but if you want to write really bad history, here’s a quick guide. Among the recommendations: * Make no distinction between facts and interpretation. In any case, remember that the truth of the latter determines the truth of the former. * Assume that ulterior motives lie behind the work of […]
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Dark and Stormy Nights
The McCain boys strode off proudly to fight in the Civil War, one for the Union and one for the Confederacy, neither of them giving a single thought to who would play them in the television movie of their story, which would be decided more than a hundred years later by 20-something casting agents who […]
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Wargaming
I’ve gotten away from my coverage of wargaming more than I’d like lately. The review of Charge! Issue 7 below is just the beginning as far as getting back to the “Gaming” part of American Civil War Gaming & Reading. I hope to review my copy of Scott Mingus’ Johnny Reb 3 Antietam scenario book […]
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Touch the Elbow: A New Civil War Blog
I learned of a new blog tonight courtesy of the Civil War Top 100 site. Entitled Touch the Elbow – Blogging all things 18th – a Massachusetts Civil War regiment, the new blog covers the 18th and the Civil War in general. Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson and Thomas Churchill are the webmasters of the 18th […]