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Tag: Civil War Memory

  • Civil War Book Review: Creating a Confederate Kentucky

    Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Product Details Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 29, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 080783436X ISBN-13: 978-0807834367 Becoming Confederate E. Merton Coulter said Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: January 23, 2009

    Air Date: 012309 Subject: Lincoln’s Views on Race Book:  The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) & The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War – Volume II Guest: Professor Edna Greene Medford Summary: Professor Edna Greene Medford of Howard University discusses Lincoln and his views on […]

  • Black Confederates

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  • Dark Command: John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and the Butchering of Civil War History

    Dark Command, a John Wayne and Claire Trevor vehicle, is loosely based on the Civil War career of William Clarke Quantrill, the Confederate guerrilla operating mostly in Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War. When I write loosely, I should probably capitalize, bold, and underline that word. While the movie is entertaining if you like […]

  • Traditional Views of the Civil War

    Traditional Views of the American Civil War by James Durney We do not know what happened during the Civil War. The participants were homesick, tired, hungry, frightened and/or bored much of the time. People usually have little knowledge of events outside of their immediate area and what they thought true was often wrong. After action […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: June 6, 2008

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  • Gary Gallagher to Appear on Civil War Talk Radio Today

    I just thought I’d let readers know that prolific author Gary Gallagher will be appearing on Civil War Talk Radio this afternoon at 4 pm Eastern (3 Central) to discuss his new book Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten, which focuses on the Civil War in popular memory.  I’ll have a summary of the interview up […]