The Front Line Preparing to See the Elephant BY: Laura June DavisPosted: 2/2/12 Preparing the Negro Soldiers to Use the Minie Rifle Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863.
Books That Built Me The Books That Built Me: Joan Waugh DIANA LUNDIN Joan Waugh “There is properly no history; only biography.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Narrowing down a list of “books that built me” was surprisingly difficult. The books finally selected,…
The Front Line Living History: Bringing Battles to Life Republican American Don Troiani in his Connecticut studio Last year, historical artist Don Troiani put the final brushstrokes on a painting called Valverde. The work captures the February 1862 lancer…
The Front Line Elegy for the Native Guards In honor of Natasha Trethewey being named the next poet laureate, we thought we would share with you one of her Civil War inspired poems. Now that the salt of…
The Front Line The First Civil War Monument On December 5, 1861, the residents of several Philadelphia suburbs gathered at Hatboro, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a monument to the men of their community who had died during the Battle…
