Month: July 2008
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If At First You Don’t Secede II
The law professors have taken up the issue! First out the gate was Ann Althouse, a Constitutional Law prof out of Madison, Wisconsin. Her take is that “all these people [who believe in the right of secession] have the law wrong and don’t seem to know the basics of the history of the Civil War,” […]
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Civil War Odds & Ends: July 26, 2008
Yesterday’s Odds & Ends took a look at the latest in the Civil War blogosphere. As promised, here is a bonus Odds & Ends covering the rest of the latest Civil War news across the rest of the World Wide Web. I am also going to start calling this column “Civil War Odds & Ends” […]
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Student of the Civil War Blog is No More
Josh M. at Student of the Civil War decided to retire the blog and move the Civil War content to his other blog Publius. Good luck Josh.
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Odds & Ends: July 25, 2008
It’s been a little while since our last Odds & Ends, so I figured it was high time we took another look around the Civil War blogosphere and also skim through other Civil War related items of interest. We’ll tackle the Civil War blogs today and have a bonus Odds & Ends on Saturday dealing […]
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If at first you don’t secede…
We may think the question of secession was settled in 1865 but to judge from the results of a new Zogby poll such is not the case. Almost one American in five believes that it’s okay to “peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic.” Eighteen percent would support a secession movement […]
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Review: Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Phillip E. Myers. Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations (New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations). Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press (March 28, 2008). 332 pages, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0873389457 $55.00 (Hardcover w/DJ). How close did Great Britain and the North come to blows while the American Civil War […]
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Gettysburg Magazine: Issue 39 Arrives
I received issue 39 of Gettysburg Magazine in the mail yesterday evening. Below the cover image is a list of the articles contained within. I encourage TOCWOC readers to subscribe to Gettysburg Magazine today! After reading this issue I may do a little blogging on one of more of the articles. I am a full […]