Published: 9/27/11Texas SCV Calls for a New StrategyBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Recently Mark Vogl, Lieutenant Commander of the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, called for a shift strategy in that organization’s approach to “heritage defense,” away from throwing...
Published: 9/21/11These Sacred Fields: Union Commemorations at GettysburgBy: Keith HarrisCategory: The Front Line For Union veterans of the Civil War, the battlefield at Gettysburg served as the epicenter for war remembrance. The modern landscape certainly attests to this. A forest of marble, granite,...
Published: 9/21/11We Cannot Know Their MindsBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Undoubtedly one of the reasons for the tremendous, abiding interest Americans have with the Civil War is that a great many of us have a personal connection to it. We...
Published: 9/21/11Welcome to The Front Line!By: Laura June DavisCategory: The Front Line The goal of The Front Line is to provide a vibrant and active space for both our readers and our contributors. Just as printed editions of The Civil War Monitor...
Published: 9/21/11We Cannot Know Their MindsBy: Andy HallCategory: The Front Line Undoubtedly one of the reasons for the tremendous, abiding interest Americans have with the Civil War is that a great many of us have a personal connection to it. We...
Published: 9/16/11A few words on The BookshelfBy: Matthew C. HulbertCategory: Book Reviews Greetings and welcome to the official digital headquarters of book reviews for The Civil War Monitor. In much the same way that printed editions of the Monitor will attempt to bridge the...
Published: 9/16/11BERTERA & CRAWFORD: The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War (2010)By: Kevin KrauseCategory: Book Reviews The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War by Martin N. Bershera and Kim Crawford. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN 978-0870139734. $44.95. Since the turn towards social...
Published: 9/16/11WARSCHAUER: Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival (2011)By: Peter C. LuebkeCategory: Book Reviews Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival by Matthew Warshauer. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-8195-7138-0. $29.95. The Civil War Centennial saw the publication of histories...
Published: 8/3/11The War BeginsBy: Civil War MonitorCategory: Photo Essays [I]n a nineteenth-century world free from blogs, social networking sites, television, and cell phones, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper thrived. Part picture, part story, Leslie’s publications combined visually stimulating engravings with journalistic articles to...