Sitemap - 2023 - Civil War Memory
Teaching the Lost Cause in South Carolina
Civil War Memory, Reconciliation, and Social Media: A Cautionary Tale
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to the Best Newsletter Subscribers Around
Interpreting the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery: A Conversation With Karen Cox
The Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery is Coming Down This Week
How Did the "Party of Lincoln" Become the Champions of the Confederacy?
How Republicans are Trying to Turn a Confederate Monument into a Symbol of Reconciliation
Open Thread Wednesday: Does It Matter How Robert Gould Shaw Died in Battle?
The Problem With Allendale, Michigan's Civil War Monument
"Keep a Clear Eye": Some Thoughts About Ron Maxwell's GETTYSBURG
Historians, Hollywood Movies, and Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON
The Final Days of the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery
Open Thread Sunday: Does Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" Still Matter?
Don't Change the Name of Faneuil Hall
The Racism of Robert Gould Shaw
Reflecting on Ron Maxwell's Movie GETTYSBURG Thirty Years Later
A Few of the Best Civil War Books of 2023
The Paternalism of Robert Gould Shaw
"You Will Follow and You Will Fire": Was Bass Reeves a Confederate Soldier?
How Not To Argue in Defense of Confederate Monuments by Marjorie Taylor Greene
Robert E. Lee's Final Meltdown
Open Thread Thursday: Your Own Personal Research Project
Alexandria, Virginia's City Council Takes a Clear Stand on Honoring the Confederacy
James Montgomery, the Burning of Darien, and the Innocence of Robert Gould Shaw
Talking History and Memory with Corporate Executives on the Boston Common
Civil War Movie Discussion Returns to Mark the 30th Anniversary of *Gettysburg*
A Plea for Critical Writing in the History Classroom
My Hopes for the Semiquincentennial
Open Thread Thursday: The Power of Place
Vacationing in a House that Enslaved People Built
A Tale of Two Plantation Tours
Following Robert Gould Shaw to the Very End
Robert Gould Shaw Helps to Rebuild Darien, GA After Burning it to the Ground
Finding a Common Humanity in the History and Memory of Beaufort, SC
Searching for Robert Gould Shaw's Final Resting Place
Robert Gould Shaw Goes To Church On the Fourth of July
Exploring History and Memory in Beaufort, SC
Open Thread Thursday: "The Research Trip That Isn't a Vacation"
The Lost Cause's Greatest Achievement
Charlotte County, VA Contextualizes Its Confederate Monument
Is the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery Headed to the New Market Battlefield?
Open Thread Thursday: Your Favorite Published Primary Source
James Longstreet, the Lost Cause, and the Original 'Cancel Culture'
Joshua L. Chamberlain and the Vagaries of Memory
Taking James Longstreet and Confederates Seriously
Open Thread Thursday: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Create Your Own Ken Burns Civil War Documentary
How Well Did Robert Gould Shaw Know the Men in the 54th Massachusetts?
Open Thread Thursday: Should Race Matter in Commissioning a Statue of Harriet Tubman?
History and Our Students Are 'Worth Fighting For'
"We Will March Through the South, Through the Heart of Dixie, the Way Sherman Did."
Open Thread Thursday: Has the Lost Cause Really Lost?
A Conversation With Jonathan White
Jim Webb Weighs In On the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery
Open Thread Thursday: Building a Civil War Library
Did Robert Gould Shaw's Mother Approve of His Fiancee?
Barbara Fields On What It Takes To Be a Historian
Robert E. Lee Has Not Been Canceled
Does Washington, D.C. Really Need Another Lincoln Statue?
Four Books About How African Americans Have Understood Lincoln and His Legacy
Open Thread Thursday: Interpreting an Iconic Gettysburg Photograph
What You Didn't Learn About the Battle of the Crater
Why Am I Confident About the Future? Because I Just Spent a Week With Teachers.
Interpreting the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery One Last Time
What Your History Teacher Did Last Summer
According to Florida's New History Standards, Rosa Parks Was an "Irresponsible" Citizen.
Some Thoughts About Florida's New History Standards and a New Poll About the Civil War
Remembering Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts on the 160th Anniversary of Battery Wagner
Remembering Colonel Robert Gould Shaw on the 160th Anniversary of His Death
African Americans Remember Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
Remembering Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Open Thread Thursday: What Should We Watch Next?
No, the Confederacy Really Did Disappear.
Taking the Lost Cause Seriously
The Problem Isn't With Twitter or Its Many Imitations. The Problem is You.
Open Thread Thursday: Do You Suffer From Gettysburgitis?
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in History, Memory, and Film: Selected Sources
"The Fourth of July is the First Great Fact in Your Nation’s History."
Monuments and Memory at Gettysburg: Another Way to Interpret the Pickett-Pettigrew Assault
Moses Didn't Serve the Confederacy. He Survived It
Chief Justice John Roberts Explains Why the Civil War Was Fought and Gets It Wrong
Open Thread Thursday: Does the Civil War Era Loom Too Large in Our National Discourse?
Museum of the American Revolution to Host Moms for Liberty Over Objections
The Challenge of Visiting Selma, Alabama
Titanic, Gettysburg, and the Lure of the Story
Critics to the Left of Me. Critics to the Right of Me
A Juneteenth For All Americans
Calls to Change the Name of Boston's Iconic Faneuil Hall are Misplaced
Making History at Gettysburg National Military Park
Otis: A Study in Five Photographs
Finding Common Ground With a Former Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Watching a Master Battlefield Interpreter at Work
Why is the Museum of the American Revolution Hosting a Hate Group?
Open Thread Thursday: The Importance of Asking the Right Question
The Last Gasp of the Lost Cause Generation
Open Thread Thursday: So Many Lives Cut Short
The Fundamental Problem at Stone Mountain
A Reminder on this Memorial Day
Nikki Haley's Continued Problem With the Confederate Flag
Putting the Debate About Slavery and Statues In Its Proper Place
Open Thread Thursday: Your Own Battlefield Guide
Confederate Monuments, Union-Busting, and the Polarization of American History
Interpreting Petersburg National Battlefield: A Conversation With Emmanuel Dabney
Open Thread Thursday: My Dinner With Lincoln
"They Say that 'Uncle Abe' is on the Verge of Lunacy"
Speaking of Robert Gould Shaw...
Open Thread Thursday: Is There Such a Thing as a Definitive History?
A Mother and Son Debate Emancipation
Four Years Together in the Army of Northern Virginia
We "Don't Know Much About History" and Never Did
Open Thread Thursday: Your Questions
Barbara Fields on The 1619 Project
Today Stone Mountain Belongs to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Open Thread Thursday: What Still Needs to Be Written?
Celebrating a Birthday and Our Shared Love of History
Episode 6: Five Books about Slavery and the Confederacy
Open Thread Thursday: Was Confederate Defeat Inevitable?
Robert E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Other Humorous Takes on the Civil War
When Confederate Monuments Go Up
Pocahontas Island, Virginia Has Lost Its Mayor
Interpreting Civil War Battlefields: A Conversation with Peter S. Carmichael
Interpreting Civil War Battlefields in the Trump Era
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott's Civil War Memory
Grape & Canister: Appomattox Surrender Edition
Tennessee Republicans Show Their True Colors
A Conversation with Ty Seidule
A Few Selections from "Silencing the Past"
When Will Academic Historians Stop Flogging Themselves Over This Issue?
We Need a New Language of Civil War Memory
I Want My Social Media Experience to be Boring
Trump Indicted and Resisting Predictions of Civil War
Mark Your Calendars for the Next Book Group Meeting
Assuming the Worst in One Another
Watching a monument roll away on a flatbed truck is not tantamount to understanding history.
William Mahone, the Readjusters, and Virginia's Standards of Learning
Interview with Candice Shy Hooper
The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is Not a "Reconciliation Memorial"
What If the Civil War Sesquicentennial Began Where It Ended
Remembering and Forgetting in the U.S. Army
Interpreting St. Paul's Episcopal Church's Confederate Windows
Interview With Christopher Graham
Fear and Hysteria Did Not Cause the Civil War
Is Gettysburg a Battlefield or Commemorative Landscape?
Building and Maintaining a Civil War Library
1-Year Anniversary Grape & Canister
What's in a Word: Language and the American Civil War
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd on Nostalgia
'The People Who Destroyed My History Had Also Destroyed Their Own'
Charlottesville's Confederate monuments are gone, but we can still learn their history.
Helping Viola Davis Uncover Her Roots
Nikki Haley's Revisionist History of the Confederate Flag Debate in South Carolina
W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee
Augusta, Georgia's Monument to White Supremacy Still Stands
Date Set For First Meeting of Civil War Memory Book Group
A History Lesson for Kevin Seefried
Finding History At An Alabama Rest Stop
Interpreting Monuments in 'The Cradle of the Confederacy'
A Few Reflections About My Civil Rights Journey
The Future of AP African American Studies Does Not Look Promising
Erasing Black History Has Always Been the Goal
Florida Rejects College Board's New Course in African American Studies
Why King-Lee Day in Alabama is a Distraction
A Conversation With Hilary Green
Introducing the Civil War Memory Book Group and a New Film About Stone Mountain
Civil War Memory is Complicated
New Book Challenges American Myths and Raises a Few Questions