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Continue reading →: Lincoln, Douglass, and Mary Todd Lincoln: A Drunken Look at History
Anyone care to take a crack at the historical inaccuracies in this woman’s assessment of the relationship between Lincoln, Douglass, and Mary Todd Lincoln?
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Continue reading →: The SHA and a Sign of the Times
The jobs report released today was good (117,000 people hired in July). But the economic roller coaster continues. The Dow Jones fell 500 points yesterday, and unemployment is still above 9%. In what is a sign of the times, the Southern Historical Association, which is holding its annual meeting in…
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Continue reading →: “Honestly, I think history is boring”: A Guest Post
Today, my fiancee sent me en email containing a movie review written by the cousin of one of her coworkers. Apparently, the guys is a film buff, who writes reviews all the time and sends them as emails to people. However, unfortunately, it appears he is not much of a…
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Continue reading →: George Carlin and Religious Wars
By Colin Woodward The other night, I was watching George Carlin on TV. During a montage of Carlin bits, the late comedian made a remark about how more men have died in the name of God (i.e., religious wars) than for any other reason. Although this phrase has become something…
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Continue reading →: “Hard War and the ‘Hand of God’: Massachusetts Abolitionists and the Burning of Darien, Georgia, in 1863”
By Colin Woodward Here’s a PDF version of the paper on the burning of Darien I presented at the Dublin Conference at Historic Deerfield in June. Any comments would be welcome. Bear in mind, though, if I ever get the time to turn this into an article, it would be…
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Continue reading →: The Terrors and Pleasures of the Job Search
I wish I’ve been blogging more, but I have a good reason: I’m hunting for jobs. Spalding Gray (RIP) once did a monologue called Terrors of Pleasure about him buying a house in upstate New York. When asked by a real estate agent what he did for a living, Gray,…
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Continue reading →: Monte Cassino
I guess I could, or should, spend all my time reading Civil War books, which exist in far greater number than I can ever hope to keep up with. But I have other interests, including anything scholarly that relates to race in the U.S. or American military history. Lately, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: The Civil War in the North
Almost all the Civil War battlefields are in the South, but the conflict happened in the North, too, even if it was not on the scale that it was in the Confederate states. Roughly two million men served in the United States army during the war; and monuments to Yankee…
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Continue reading →: Douglas Southall Freeman
Douglas Southall Freeman, who was born in Virginia and was the son of a Confederate soldier, worshiped Robert E. Lee. Freeman lived most of his life in Richmond, where he worked at the city’s News-Leader newspaper. On his drives to work, he liked to salute Lee’s statue on Monument Avenue.…
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Continue reading →: Ed Ayers and the Governor of Virginia
Here’s a link courtesy of Kevin Levin at Civil War Memory. http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Richmond-Chief-Stirs/127879/?key=TmN7Il9pa3EbbS5qYjcSaG4Ea3w7ZUl7N3UbaHQiblpcFA%3D%3D All this was happening while I was in Virginia, and I think it takes a special talent to piss off Ed Ayers. I’ve never met him, but I’ve seen him speak on several occasions and have seen him…
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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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