Grape & Canister

Civil War News, Books, Videos, and an Otis pic

I am writing about the Burning of Darien today, so here is a photograph from my recent trip looking out on the Altamaha River from the Darien docks.

Civil War Movie Discussion

A reminder that I will be hosting a discussion about the movie Gettysburg for all paid subscribers on Sunday, November 12 at 7PM EST.

This promises to be a fun and engaging discussion. I hope you can make it, but keep in mind that you have to be a paid subscriber to participate.

News

Check out this podcast episode from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which summarizes the removal of monuments in and around Richmond.

The city of Alexandria, Virginia is looking to rename streets that honor Confederate leaders.

Steve Inskeep discusses his new book about Abraham Lincoln on C-SPAN.

Students speak out about their experience taking the new AP African American Studies course in Los Angeles.

Videos

Here is historian Scott Hartwig discussing how the battle of Antietam has been portrayed in Hollywood movies.

Historian and former Harper's Ferry Park Ranger, Dennis Frye, discusses John Brown and the public history challenges associated with his interpretation at Harpers Ferry.

New to the Civil War Memory Library

I recently did some review work for the University of North Carolina Press and decide to take my compensation in the form of a book credit. Here is my haul.

Justin T. Clark, City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Jon N. Hale, A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

Stephen Kantrowitiz, Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (University of North Carolina Press, 2000).

Dale Kretz, Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

Andrew C. McKevitt, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

Steven M. Stowe, Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Tamara Plakins Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Otis

Last month we spend a few days in Maine. As you can see, Otis very much enjoyed having his very own bed.