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Continue reading →: Guest Columnist: 12 Years a Slave
Today we’re featuring a first on this blog: a post by Charles Harrison Fitzhugh, who works at the Life and Liberty Institute, a conservative think tank in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the author of Abraham Lincoln: War Criminal, John Birch: Sage Patriot, and Why Obama is the Anti-Christ and…
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Continue reading →: Paul Fussell’s “Doing Battle”
By Colin Woodward I recently finished reading Paul Fussell’s memoir, Doing Battle, about his experiences growing up in Pasadena, California, as an officer in Europe during World War II, and as a teacher and scholar at Rutgers and Princeton. Fussell received his doctorate in English from Harvard, and he is…
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Continue reading →: “A Great and a Terrible Day”: The Battle of Antietam
By Colin Woodward Back in September, I started reading Stephen Sears’s Landscape Turned Red about the battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history. In the movie Glory, Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, an abolitionist, called it a “great and a terrible day.” The carnage in Maryland was appalling, but it…
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Continue reading →: Eric Foner, Rebel Flags, and Nubile Young Co-Eds: My First Visit to Ole Miss
By Colin Woodward Back in graduate school, I once jotted down a list of the most southern states in the Union. At number one was Mississippi (with, if memory serves, Alabama second, South Carolina third, followed by Virginia and then Georgia.) Well, I hadn’t spent much time at all in…
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Continue reading →: Me and Johnny Cash, Part II: My Trip to Kingsland, Arkansas
By Colin Woodward On the day of my birthday in late August, I visited Kingsland, Arkansas, in Cleveland County, about an hour south of Little Rock. Kingsland is the birthplace of Johnny Cash. Cash was born there in February of 1932, but the place doesn’t seem to have changed all that much. It’s…
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Continue reading →: Passing the Certified Archivist Exam
By Colin Woodward I am a historian of the American South. I am also an archivist. In August, I took the certification exam for archivists that’s administered by the Academy of Certified Archivists. It was not an easy exam, and I squeaked by. This post is about my experience, which…
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Continue reading →: My Visit to Central High School
By Colin Woodward I’ve lived in Little Rock for about a year and half, and yet I didn’t visit Central High School until this spring. It was a beautiful Easter Sunday in Little Rock when I passed by the famous site. Since nothing much was open that day, I decided…
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Continue reading →: Crime in Little Rock, Arkansas
By Colin Woodward In 2017, Little Rock was rated the most dangerous city in America with a population less than 200,00 people. Arkansas is a third world place, more or less, and with it comes third world levels of crime. This is a violent country, and Little Rock is a…
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Continue reading →: Wallace, Thornton, and Drive-By Truckers: Some Sources on Alabama History
By Colin Woodward George Wallace For a few months this past winter, I was immersed in all things Alabama. Over the holidays, I finished Dan Carter’s terrific biography of George Wallace, The Politics of Rage. The only complaint I had with the book is that Carter finished it while Wallace…
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Continue reading →: Thank you, Jacqueline Campbell
By Colin Woodward Things have been busy for me since last December, when our family of two became a family of three. Since then, it’s been hard to get as much reading done as I would like. While reorganizing my study and living room, I decided to put all my…
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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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