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Continue reading →: “Django Unchained”: “The D is Silent.”
By Colin Woodward Civil War scholar and blogger Kevin Levin, who is far more on top of things than I am, recently posted a link to an article on the the forthcoming film Django Unchained. It’s the latest movie from Quentin Tarantino. And while the film is set in the mid-nineteenth century South,…
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Continue reading →: The War of 1812 on the web and in history
By Colin Woodward While studying in London way back in the 1990s, one of my professors at King’s College said in reference to the War of 1812, “Don’t ever let an American tell you they didn’t lose a war until Vietnam.” I thought that was pretty funny, and there’s some…
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Continue reading →: Dan T. Carter, George Wallace, and the “Duality of the Southern Thing”
By Colin Woodward I recently started reading Dan T. Carter’s book, The Politics of Rage, which examines the life and political career of the Alabama Governor, who infamously said in 1963 that he wanted “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Wallace gained national headlines for standing in the doorway of…
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Continue reading →: Three Stooges Civil War
It’s Monday. Maybe the Three Stooges, Union soldiers posing as Confederate troops, will help a little.
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Continue reading →: The Hatfields and the McCoys
By Colin Woodward The other night, I watched the first part of the historical drama Hatfields & McCoys on the History Channel (called by some wags the “Hitler Channel” for its at times seemingly incessant programming about the Third Reich). The episode was pretty good. From a dramatic perspective, the show delivered. Kevin Costner was surprisingly…
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Continue reading →: The Never Ending Battle over the Confederate Battle Flag
By Colin Woodward A girl in Tennessee named Texanna Edwards (not Tennesseanna?), pictured above, wore a custom made Confederate battle flag to her prom. Her school told her she couldn’t wear it and wouldn’t let her dance inside. That must have been particularly rough when “Free Bird” came on. But,…
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Continue reading →: “4-F: Charles Bukowski and World War II”
By Colin Woodward I recently gave a talk in Boston at a conference for pop culture scholars. The subject was Charles Bukowski’s contrarian take on World War II. While I am first and foremost a Civil War historian, there other wars, and aspects of the military experience, that I like…
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Continue reading →: A Cult within a Cult (Note: This is Not a Review of “A Rebel Born”)
By Colin Woodward The other day in Barnes and Noble, I came across a book called A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Lochlainn Seabrook (Sea Raven Press, 2010). The book, which weighs in at a hefty 800 pages, contains, shall we say, a spirited defense of…
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Continue reading →: Are Historians Too Hard on Hollywood History?
By Colin Woodward The new issue of the academic journal Civil War History contains two reviews of historical films, the first an assessment of the Robert Redford film The Conspirator, about the trial of Mary Surratt following the Lincoln assassination. The second is a review of the recent PBS documentary about…
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Continue reading →: More on the Virginia Flaggers and “Dixie”
By Colin Woodward Since many people have commented here recently on the Virginia Flagger issue, I’ve posted a link to Kevin Levin, who has more on the controversy, especially the UDC’s take on it. Apparently, the UDC is annoyed by the Flaggers as everyone else. http://cwmemory.com/2012/03/15/a-relic-of-the-past/ While I agree with…
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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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