History Buzz March 5, 2012: James McPherson: Returns to Gustavus College as Civil War Sesquicentennial Scholar

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP James McPherson: Returns to Gustavus as Sesquicentennial Scholar Source: Gustavus News, 3-5-12 Sesquicentennial Scholar and 1958 Gustavus alumnus James McPhersonGustavus alumnus, Civil War historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson ‘58 will return to his alma mater April 15-17 as a Sesquicentennial Scholar. Besides visiting [...]

History Buzz January 26, 2012: Huntington Library acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Huntington acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens purchases a collection of telegrams from Abraham Lincoln and Union generals, plus code books. Source: LAT, 1-26-12 A long-unknown, 150-year-old trove of handwritten ledgers and calfskin-covered code books [...]

History Buzz January 25, 2012: James Davis: Civil War lecture to be history professor’s last at Illinois College

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Civil War lecture to be history professor’s last at IC Source: Jacksonville Journal-Courier, 1-25-12 Illinois College invites the community to attend a presentation on how Illinois College and the Jacksonville community were involved in the Civil War. Historian and Illinois College Professor Emeritus of History [...]

Josh Howard: North Carolina Civil War history might need a rewrite

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: NC News & Observer, 7-22-11 Josh Howard’s work as a research historian at N.C. Archives and History debunks two cherished myths about the Civil War. For more than a century, North Carolina clung to a pair of Civil War distinctions thought sacred: It sent the first Confederate killed in [...]

David Detzer: The Battle of Bull Run, the Civil War’s first taste of horror

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: CS Monitor, 7-21-11 An interview with historian David Detzer sheds light on the Battle of Bull Run, the first battle of the US Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861. The Battle of Bull Run would be the first battle of an incredibly bloody war, a conflict that hardly [...]

Karen Cox: Gone With The Wind Evokes 
Strong Feelings

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6-2-11 “Gone With the Wind” defined Atlanta, the South and the Civil War for millions of people around the world. As the novel turns 75, the conjunction of that event with the 150th anniversary of the war it depicts — inexcusably romanticizes, many would say — [...]