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Published: 4/30/13
Civil War Desserts
Confederate Apple Pie Without The Apples Ingredients: 1 ¾ cups of water 2 cups of sugar 2 tablespoons cream of tarter 2 tablespoons lemon juice Grated zest of one lemon...
Published: 4/29/13
“The Grandest Charity in the Country:” The Missouri Home For Confederate Veterans
In the decades immediately following the Civil War, Missourians expressed concern for the plight of their aging and ill Confederate veterans. In response, the Ex-Confederate Association of Missouri formed in...
Published: 4/26/13
An Interview with Jeff Rosenheim
Our conversation with Jeff Rosenheim, the Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In this interview, Jeff discusses...
Published: 4/24/13
Diverging Loyalties (2011)
Bruce T. Gourley’s Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War is an engrossing, enlightening exploration of our nation’s greatest trauma, as seen through the eyes of a unique...
Published: 4/19/13
An Interview with Marion Moser Jones
Our interview with Marian Moser Jones, an assistant professor of family science at University of Maryland’s School of Public Health and the author of The American Red Cross: From...
Published: 4/17/13
A Self-Evident Lie (2013)
Ironically, the falsehood discussed in Jeremy J. Tewell’s important study, A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom would not be considered a lie today. His title refers...
Published: 4/10/13
Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri (2012)
The past several years have seen a great increase in interest in the history of the guerrilla conflict by both scholars and amateur historians alike. It seems that wherever one...
Published: 4/3/13
The CSS Virginia (2012)
As one of the main participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the CSS Virginia has received considerable attention from historians. But these works tend to focus on the ship’s novel...
Published: 3/27/13
Freedom Papers (2012)
In September 1899, Edouard Tinchant (1841-1915), a man of Haitian descent with an unusual background, including service in Company C 6th Louisiana Volunteers, during the Civil War, wrote to Maximo...
Published: 3/20/13
John Brown’s Spy (2012)
In the past 20 years no less than three significant monographs, each written by a capable scholar, have documented and analyzed the life of abolitionist and insurrectionist John Brown or...
Published: 3/20/13
Abraham Lincoln and White America (2012)
Countless books and articles about Abraham Lincoln’s views and policies on slavery and race have appeared over the years, but Brian Dirck is the first historian to explore Lincoln’s identity...
Published: 3/15/13
An Interview with Ron Coddington
Our conversation with Ron Coddington, an assistant managing editor with the Chronicle of Higher Education and author of African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album, published by...
Published: 3/13/13
Bully for the Band! (2012)
As the title of his book suggests, James A. Davis, Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Music History Area at the State University of New York, Fredonia, has transcribed...
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Published: 3/12/13
Civil War Envelopes
Delve into the world of Civil War envelopes. See how soldiers stayed connected through handwritten letters and intricate, decorative envelope designs.
Published: 3/8/13
An Interview with David Silkenat
Our conversation with David Silkenat, Assistant Professor of History and Education at North Dakota State University and author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce & Debt in Civil War...
Published: 3/6/13
Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri (2011)
As a wartime president tasked with holding together a country ripping at the seams, Abraham Lincoln sought and utilized every means of maintaining the Union. For this, Lincoln has often...
Published: 2/27/13
African American Faces of the Civil War (2012)
When the movie Glory debut in 1989 it was not commonly recognized that African Americans had fought in the Civil War. Although many of the details were fictionalized, the film’s depiction...
Published: 2/27/13
The Civil War: The First Year (2011)
In his incisive 2005 anthology What Caused the Civil War?, Edward L. Ayers called on his fellow historians to challenge the simplicity and triumphalism of Americans’ “common sense” Civil War...