Monthly Archives: January 2025
2025 Winter Lecture Series | Wayne Motts
Here’s Wayne Motts delivering a presentation on Buckeyes at Gettysburg as part of the GNMP 2025 Winter Lecture Series. The video’s description reads, “Buckeyes at Gettysburg with Wayne Motts, Gettysburg Foundation — The state of Ohio contributed significantly to the Union war effort during the American Civil War. At Gettysburg, some 4,400 Ohioans fought in […]
2025 Winter Lecture Series | John Fitzpatrick
This lecture by John Fitzpatrick is supposedly about holding Britain accountable for constructing confederate raiders. Unfortunately, the presentation was poorly organized, and he spent far more time on the raiding than on holding Britain accountable, which was supposed to be his topic. His unfamiliarity with the technology was also distracting. The video’s description reads, “Dropping […]
2025 Winter Lecture Series | Dan Welch
Here’s Dan Welch giving a presentation on how the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park came about. The video’s description reads, “‘Acting as an agent for Governor Curtin’ – David Wills and the Creation of the National Cemetery with Dan Welch, Gettysburg National Military Park – More than any other, Gettysburg citizen and prominent lawyer David Wills […]
Decoding Scott’s Great Snake
I came across this substack doing a deep dive into the J. B. Elliott cartoon about the Anaconda Plan [“Scott’s Great Snake”]. Many people will often claim the Anaconda Plan was the plan that won the war, but that is an error. If we look at each element of the plan we can see it […]
Holding the Political Center in Illinois
I’ve reviewed this book for the Emerging Civil War website, which you can read here. As regular readers of this blog know, the reviews I post on this blog are unique in that part of my motivation is to provide a sample of what we can learn from the book, which is not usually what […]
Trump’s Inauguration Is Ushering in a New Redemption Era of White Power Politics and Violence
This article comes from Teen Vogue, which surprisingly has done great work reporting on history and how historical events inform current events. “On Monday, January 20, two political legacies will collide in real time. Donald Trump will become our 47th president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It feels poetic in the worst possible way. The cartoonish […]
The War That Made America
This is a book of essays inspired by Gary Gallagher’s scholarship. It’s edited by Caroline Janney, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, and the late Peter Carmichael. It contains ten essays from top historians who were students of Professor Gallagher’s in addition to the introduction. After a short overview of Professor Gallagher’s professional career the editors write, “The essays […]
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