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Continue reading →: Johnny Cash in Pine Bluff, October 1968
By Colin Woodward Johnny Cash chats with Arkansas’s Winthrop Rockefeller in Pine Bluff in October 1968. Cash was playing shows for Rockefeller, who was up for reelection as governor that year. You can read more in this Arkansas Times article. http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/when-johnny-cash-campaigned-for-winthrop-rockefeller/Content?oid=3489017 To Cash’s left in the picture is his drummer,…
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Continue reading →: Richmond Tobacco Field
This one of my favorite photographs of my former home, Richmond, Virginia: tobacco growing on Monument Avenue in the early 19o0s. Courtesy: Valentine Richmond History Center.
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Continue reading →: The W. S. Holland Band: Little Rock Show, Friday October 10
On Friday night, the W. S. Holland Band will be playing at the Ron Robinson Theatre in the River Market district of downtown Little Rock. The show is sponsored by the Artspree concert series and the UALR Department of Music. W. S. “Fluke” Holland performed with Johnny Cash for decades…
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Continue reading →: Erskine College: 175 Years
By Colin Woodward Erskine College in South Carolina is celebrating its sesquicentennial. The college used one of my pictures I took of Gaines’ Mill battlefield (that I had posted on the Virginia Historical Society blog a few years ago) for a film they’ve made about their history. Here is the…
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Continue reading →: St. Francisville, Louisiana: More Southern than the South
By Colin Woodward A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of returning to St. Francisville, Louisiana, after a ten-year absence. The town (which I will abbreviate as SF) is about 30 minutes north of Baton Rouge. And it is as charming as Baton Rouge is not. St. Francisville the…
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Continue reading →: Sampling Soldiers: Historians and the Numbers Game
By Colin Woodward In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a book called How to Lie with Statistics. I need to read it. And I think some Civil War scholars need to read it, too. This post is in response to a review by Kenneth Noe at Civil War Monitor. Let me…
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Continue reading →: Marching Masters: The Agony and Ecstasy of the Amazon Ranking
By Colin Woodward Last week, the Central Arkansas Library System put out an annual report in which it noted the top ten authors in terms of people who had borrowed his/her book in the past year. Five of the top ten spots were held by James Patterson. Others in the…
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Continue reading →: “American: The Bill Hicks Story”
By Colin Woodward Last night, I finally watched American: The Bill Hicks Story. I’ve been a fan of Bill Hicks for a while. It was one of those post-graduate school, things. How I found out about Bill, I’m not sure. I think I was on amazon, reading about Denis Leary.…
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Continue reading →: Marching Masters: Now Available at King’s College, London!
By Colin Woodward When I was a junior at Trinity College, Hartford, I spent a wonderful semester at King’s College in London. The college has a great reputation as a center for military studies, and it had a long-term impact on my thinking about war and how nations’ conduct themselves…
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Continue reading →: The Writing Machine
By Colin Woodward I thought I’d get a break after publishing my book. Marching Masters came out in March, and since then, I’ve been something of a writing machine. The ink was hardly dry on my book when I got an email saying I needed to overhaul an article I…
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Colin Woodward is a writer, historian, archivist, and recovering podcaster. His latest book is Country Boy: the Roots of Johnny Cash, winner of the Ragsdale Award for best book on Arkansas history, 2022. He has also written for the Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Arkansas Times, Style Weekly (Richmond, Va.), and other publications. He is a frequent contributor to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. He lives in Richmond.
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