Civil War Memory

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The other day on twitter I was asked if it is worth watching Ken Burns’s documentary, The Civil War, which aired on PBS in 1990. In recent years, the…
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No one was surprised when Senate Minority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, announced that he would not vote in favor of confirming Judge Ketanji…
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In the first installment of this series I briefly explored the way in which The Civil War deals with slavery as a cause of the war. For many viewers…
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What good is history education if you are prevented from teaching its most critical lessons following yet another racially-inspired mass killing? This…
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I've always thought that Barbara Fields was the real star of this film.
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Today state offices in South Carolina are closed in recognition of Confederate Memorial Day. The day comes just weeks before the anniversary of Dylann…
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On this bicentennial anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth I am sharing five books that have helped me to better understand this incredibly rich and…
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Just sent off a review of Keith S. Hebert’s new book, Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens and the Speech that Defined the Lost Cause to…
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Yesterday I came across this tweet from historian Michael Beschloss. There are any number of ways one could react to people who insist that, “Lincoln…
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Catch up on this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. In 2019 historian Keri Leigh Merritt published a thoughtful critique of Ken Burns’s Civil War…
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On the morning of April 9, 1865, Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was cut off from its last route of escape at Appomattox…
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This is one of my favorite comedy skits about Civil Ware reenacting. I’ve heard from a few people that Conan is a bit of a history buff and is…
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