HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BOOK NEWS — Sesquicentennial Update: Civil War at 150 George C. Rable: On Civil War’s 150th anniversary, historian reflects on religion’s role Source: Catholic News Agency, 12-9-11 Religion had a “pervasive” role in American life at the time of the United States’ Civil War, [...]
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History Buzz December 9, 2011: George C. Rable: On Civil War’s 150th anniversary, historian reflects on religion’s role
Posted by bonniekaryn on December 9, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 22, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 21, 2011
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Sesquicentennial Update: Great Civil War books stand out
Great Civil War books stand out as readers try to satisfy an endless fascination Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 5-29-11 Here’s a startling fact: “Books about the Civil War have accumulated at the rate of more than a title a day since fighting erupted at Fort Sumter in April 1861,” writes historian Gary Gallagher in his introduction [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 29, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/great-civil-war-books-stand-out-as-readers-try-to-satisfy-an-endless-fascination/
Gary W. Gallagher: How the Northern view shaped the Civil War
SESQUICENTENNIAL UPDATE: CIVIL WAR AT 150 Source: Charlotte Observer, 5-22-11 Revisionist history argues that U.S. loyalists valued the Union itself more than the idea of emancipation or turning slaves into citizens Historian Gary W. Gallagher writes that Northerners “believed victory over the slaveholders confirmed the nation….” COURTESY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS More Information Nonfiction The [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 22, 2011
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Quick Overview From VA Tech Civil War Conference
Source: Times News, 5-22-11 It has been a long time since I had an early morning class. However Saturday I was up before the sun to get to the campus of Virginia Tech by 8:30 am to listen to some of the best Civil War professors in the county discuss “Military Strategy in the American [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 22, 2011
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James McPherson: Princeton professor brings perspective to conflict that split nation
Sesquicentennial Update: Civil War at 150 HISTORY PROFILES: Source: The Times of Trenton, 4-3-11 Princeton University History Department Professor Emeritus James McPherson in his home in Princeton, March 2, 2011. (Cie Stroud for The Times) (Editor’s note: First of three parts.) The occasion may have escaped the notice of most people, but there’s a sesquicentennial [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on April 3, 2011
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Civil War 150: Every corner of nation was touched
Figures show how changes still felt today Source: Scripps Howard News Service, 3-26-11 SH11A060CIVILWAR150 Jan. 12, 2011 — Burned rail cars and gutted buildings in the center of Richmond, Va. in April 1865. At the Civil Warís end, 90 percent of the Southís rail lines had been destroyed along with most of its mills and [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on March 27, 2011
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Sesquicentennial Update: Emancipating History
Source: NYT, 3-11-11 Anne McQuary for The New York Times The brick slave quarters along an avenue of oak trees greet visitors to Boone Hall Plantation. More Photos » Multimedia Slide Show Slavery and Heritage in Charleston Enlarge This Image Anne McQuary for The New York Times A daguerreotype of a black woman and [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on March 11, 2011
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David Blight: American historian discusses Civil War’s 150th anniversary
Source: WMU News, 3-10-11 The sesquicentennial of the Civil War and its implications for American history are topics of a free lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the Fetzer Center Auditorium on the campus of Western Michigan University. American historian Dr. David Blight will deliver the annual H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture. He is professor of American history [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on March 10, 2011
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History Buzz: February 2011 Recap: Reagan Centennial — President’s Day — Civil War at 150
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP IN FOCUS: [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 28, 2011
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Sesquicentennial Update: Marking Jefferson Davis’s Confederate Inauguration
Source: NYT, 2-20-11 One hundred and fifty years and one day later, the South did it again. Enlarge This Image Jeff Haller for The New York Times People gathered for the Confederate Heritage Rally in front of the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday. Related in Opinion Disunion Civil War Timeline An unfolding history of [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 20, 2011
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