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Robert Gould Shaw Goes To Church On the Fourth of July
The rain here today in Beaufort, South Carolina hasn’t slowed me down one bit. I spent most of the morning and early afternoon at Penn Center (formerly…
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Exploring History and Memory in Beaufort, SC
I arrived in Beaufort, South Carolina late this afternoon. I checked into the Rhett House Inn and immediately set out on a short walk through the…
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Open Thread Thursday: "The Research Trip That Isn't a Vacation"
I know, I know, it’s not Thursday. Predictably, I completely lost track of the days while on vacation this week in beautiful Cape Elizabeth, Maine with…
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The Lost Cause's Greatest Achievement
Among the claims made by Lost Cause writers after the Civil War, the belief in a unified Confederacy was essential. Confederate soldiers and civilians…
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Grape & Canister
Civil War News, Books, Videos, and an Otis pic
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Charlotte County, VA Contextualizes Its Confederate Monument
I’ve long been skeptical of attempts to contextualize Confederate monuments as a means to address the question of whether they should remain or be…
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Is the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery Headed to the New Market Battlefield?
The Washington Post is now reporting on the agreement between Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the Virginia Military Institute to accept and relocate…
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Open Thread Thursday: Your Favorite Published Primary Source
Testimonials from Paid Subscribers I recently noticed that paid subscribers can leave feedback. Here is a small sample of the messages that I have…
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James Longstreet, the Lost Cause, and the Original 'Cancel Culture'
In 1998 a monument honoring Confedeate general James Longstreet was unveiled on the Gettysburg battlefield. From the beginning, arguments defending the…
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Joshua L. Chamberlain and the Vagaries of Memory
Last week I had the honor of delivering the annual Joshua L. Chamberlain Memorial Lecture at the Pejepscot History Center in Brunswick, Maine. We had an…
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Taking James Longstreet and Confederates Seriously
This coming November, Simon & Schuster will publish Elizabeth Varon’s biography of James Longstreet. I’ve been looking forward to this book for some…
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Open Thread Thursday: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
I was hoping to get something up before the end of the day, but I was having trouble coming up with a good question. That is until I heard my friend…
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