50FISH Dev Team
Published: 1/18/13
An Interview with Brian Craig Miller
Our conversation with Brian Craig Miller, Assistant Professor of History and Associate Chair of History at Emporia State University and editor of A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa...
Published: 11/26/12
“Not Since the Days of William the Conqueror” – Anti-War Democrats of Ohio in their Own Words
For me, one of the great joys of researching and writing about Civil War history is “reading other people’s mail.” Whether in archives, digitized sources online, or in books, reading...
Published: 11/16/12
An Interview with Clay Risen
Our conversation with Clay Risen, editor of the New York Times Disunion blog. In this interview, Clay discusses the origins of the online version of the blog, the benefits...
Published: 11/11/12
Wither Liberia? Civil War Emancipation and Freedmen Resettlement in West Africa
On a late October morning in 1862 the U.S. Treasury department received a visit from Robert J. Walker. The former Mississippi senator was something of an enigma in war-torn Washington—an...
Published: 11/2/12
An Interview with Cathy Wright
Our conversation with Cathy Wright, curator for the Museum of the Confederacy. In her interview, Cathy discusses her responsibilities at the MOC, the new MOC branch at Appomattox, and...
Published: 10/29/12
The Peace Monument At Appomattox, UDC, and Reconstruction
In May 1932, Mary Davidson Carter, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) from Upperville, Virginia, was angry. She had just learned that the federal government was...
Published: 10/26/12
An Interview with Barbara Gannon
Our interview with Barbara Gannon, Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Central Florida and author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand...
Published: 10/19/12
An Interview with Lisa Brady
Our interview with Lisa Brady, Associate Professor of History at Boise State University and author of War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during...
Published: 10/12/12
An Interview with Anne Rubin
Our interview with Anne Rubin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Rubin is the author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of...
Published: 10/8/12
The Myth of the H.L. Hunley’s Blue Lantern
When the Confederate H.L. Hunley engaged the USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864, she made history as the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. She also sparked one of...
Published: 10/5/12
An Interview with Kevin Levin
Our interview with historian Kevin Levin. Kevin maintains the popular blog “Civil War Memory” and is the author of Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War As Murder, now...
Published: 10/1/12
The Consequences of Damning the Torpedoes
Rear Adm. David Farragut famously “damned the torpedoes” when he closed off the port of Mobile as a haven for blockade runners. But the Union navy’s and army’s final push...
Published: 9/28/12
An Interview with Glenn Brasher
Our interview with Glenn Brasher, Instructor of History at the University of Alabama and author of The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight...
Published: 9/19/12
An Interview with Aaron Astor
Our interview with Aaron Astor, associate professor of history at Maryville College and author of Rebels on the Border published by Louisiana State University Press. Dr. Astor’s work examines...
Published: 9/17/12
The Battle For Freedom: Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln spent the late summer of 1862 waiting. Worrying and waiting. He was worrying about the war, which was not going well. And he was waiting for a victory...
Published: 9/14/12
An Interview with Ric Burns
Our interview with Ric Burns, director of the new PBS documentary “Death and the Civil War.” Based on Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering,” Burns details the documentary, his...
Published: 9/7/12
An Interview with Jim Downs
Our interview with Jim Downs, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College and author of Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War...
Published: 8/31/12
An Interview with Keith Harris
The Civil War Monitor‘s interview with Keith Harris, host of “Cosmic America,” a Civil War multi-media platform. In the interview we discuss Keith’s goals with Cosmic America, other Civil...