America’s Civil War
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: September 03, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Segways slipping silently across the battlefield might resemble the charge of the very, very light brigade, but the two-wheel, stand-up scooters could be an ideal way for tourists to inspect hallowed Civil War sites.
Beginning in June, the Fredericksburg and …
Ron Soodalter |
Published: September 03, 2010 at 11:37 am
A wonderfully intimate glimpse of Lincoln the public speaker comes to us from his trip to New Hampshire in 1860 to visit his eldest son, Robert, at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Jonathan Turley |
Published: September 01, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Southerners insisted they could legally bolt from the Union.
Northerners swore they could not.
War would settle the matter for good.
Over the centuries, various excuses have been employed for starting wars. Wars have been fought over land or honor. …
Harold Holzer |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:57 am
Harold Holzer explores revisionism and Civil War memory
Tamela Baker |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:56 am
Superintendent John Howard plans to retire at year's end after 16 years at the helm of Antietam National Battlefield. Here he shares a few parting thought.
What accomplishment stands out most in your time at Antietam?John Howard. Photo by …
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:55 am
A proposed casino near the site of Pickett's Charge has landed the Gettysburg National Military Park on the Civil War Preservation Trust's list of the 10 most endangered battlefields in 2010.
In its annual report History Under Siege, CWPT identified …
Susannah Ural |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:54 am
Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era
by Christian G. Samito,
Cornell University Press, 2010, $39.95
Christian Samito's Becoming American Under Fire is a superb study of the expansion …
Winston Groom |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:53 am
Irreconcilable Differences
Simmering animosities between North and South signaled an American apocalypse
Any man who takes it upon himself to explain the causes of the Civil War deserves whatever grief comes his way, regardless of his good intentions. Having acknowledged …
Ron Soodalter |
Published: July 07, 2010 at 8:52 am
Getting away with murder
The battlefield claimed many a brave officer, but there were a few others who met not-quite-so-honorable ends
The death toll among general officers during the Civil War was staggering. Because military necessity often placed a general …
Robin Friedman |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm
The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July, 1863
By Scott L. Mingus Sr.,
Louisiana State University Press, 2009
The legendary Louisiana Tigers, one of the more feared units in the Army of Northern Virginia, get a welcome and comprehensive …
Thomas A. Horrocks |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Could Buchanan Have Stopped the Civil War?
Either the much-maligned James Buchanan was the unmitigated disaster of legend, or he deserves an apology.
Parke Pierson |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm
He signed documents with an "X" and left no known recorded quotes or memoir of his experiences.
Yet because of his determination to be free, we know his name: Dred Scott, the intrepid slave who battled an unjust system through …
Chris Howland |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:10 pm
What makes this exhibit so different?
For one, it's not organized chronologically. Many of the exhibits we looked at start with Fort Sumter, then go to Manassas, then Shiloh, all the way along. But we've organized ours around certain theme …
Tim and Elizabeth Rowland |
Published: April 29, 2010 at 1:10 pm
The National Archives combines 21st-century technology with 19th-century ephemera for a new interactive sesquicentennial exhibition the department calls "the most extensive display ever assembled" from its massive Civil War collection.View the patent for artifical limbs at the exhibit. National …
Chris Howland |
Published: March 01, 2010 at 4:28 pm
In the Hands of a Craftsman:
Master gunsmith John Zimmerman, an expert on Civil War firearms, is right at home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
How did you become a master gunsmith?
I grew up in Ohio and then was in …
Parke Pierson |
Published: March 01, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Preston Brooks' big stick diplomacy:
Heated oratory leads to violence in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Senate
With swift, powerful strokes, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks battered the prostrate body in the aisle of the nearly empty U.S. Senate …
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