Monthly Archives: December 2024
Touring The National Civil War Museum
In this video, Garry Adelman and Kris White of the National Battlefield Trust tour the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA. If you’re ever in the area, stop and visit this museum because it is excellent. If you’re at Gettysburg it is well worth the trip north to Harrisburg [about a 40-minute drive] to […]
CWTR Episode 2105: The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864
This is a pretty good conversation between host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz and his guest, author Dave Powell on the Atlanta Campaign.
Allen Guelzo and Jon Grinspan on the Civil War
Here, Dr. Allen Guelzo and Dr. Jon Grinspan discuss their latest books. The video’s description reads, “Civil War historians Allen Guelzo and Jon Grinspan talked about their respective Civil War books. Allen Guelzo talked about the written accounts of soldiers and bystanders who witnessed the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and Jon Grinspan talked about the “Wide Awakes,” a political movement in the 1860s […]
Wealth, Slaveownership, and Fighting for the Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American Civil War
I came across this article from the American Political Science Review, Vol. 113, Issue 3, August 2019, pp. 658-673. “Civil wars are pervading features of human society, despite their profound costs. Between World War II and the new millennium alone, there were over 70 civil wars resulting in more than 16 million deaths worldwide. These […]
CWTR Episode 2103: Decade of Disunion
This is a conversation between host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz and his guest, retired journalist Robert W. Merry, about Mr. Merry’s book, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861. It seemed to me this book is an attempt to “blame both sides” for the Civil War, though that […]
Replacing Hannibal Hamlin: How Andrew Johnson Became Lincoln’s Second VP
This article came into my feed. “I should make it clear at the outset that Lincoln had nothing to do with picking his first vice president and likely had little to do with picking the second one. Presidents and their running mates back in Lincoln’s day were picked by the party’s nominating convention. Today we […]
Protecting the Bull Run Monuments
Professor Caroline Janney, Director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, discusses the monuments on the Bull Run (aka Manassas) battlefield at a conference the Nau Center hosted at the University of Virginia. The video’s description reads, “University of Virginia Center for Civil War History director Caroline Janney talked about the […]
Southern Strategies Why the Confederacy Failed
Here’s Dr. Christian Keller giving an excellent presentation based on his book, Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed. The video’s description reads, “Noted Civil War Historian and US Army War College Professor, Dr. Christian B. Keller, discusses his analysis of the failure of Confederate strategic leadership during the American Civil War based on his two […]
CWTR Episode 2102: Peter Carmichael Memorial
This conversation was supposed to have been a discussion of the new book, The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher. However, with the untimely passing of one of the editors, Professor Peter S. Carmichael, this turned into a memorial and discussion of Peter’s life and scholarship with Professor […]
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