Month: February 2009
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Lincoln and the Laws of War
John Fabian Witt, a professor of legal history at Columbia University, pens an article in Slate about Lincoln’s Laws of War, and how the Bush administration supposedly attempted to destroy them. This is amusing, since when it comes to prosecuting a war George Bush is a pantywaist compared to the Great Emancipator. Witt wraps the […]
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ACW Miniature Wargaming
Hello. I am John Michael Priest, veteran high school history teacher, Civil War historian and avid wargamer. As a member of the HMGS – East I have had the honor of hosting a number of games at its conventions over the past several years. This year I will be attending Cold Wars in Lancaster to […]
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New Civil War Blog: Everythingcivilwar’s Blog
We have another new addition to the Civil War blog ranks, Chris Loperfido’s Everythingcivilwar’s Blog. Chris is a former intern at the Gettysburg National Military Park and is currently working on a book about the letters of Civil War surgeon James D. Benton of the 111th New York. Join me in welcoming Chris to the […]
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Permanent Page for sfcdan’s Excellent Campaign Studies at History Forum
Long time History Channel forum poster sfcdan has done quite a few multi-post campaign sketches on the History Channel forum. These posts are a nice change of pace from the constant quarrels over slavery that appear there endlessly, day after day. I thought it might be a nice idea to collect sfcdan’s posts at one […]
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Civil War Talk’s Civil War Blog Reader Forum
I subscribe to a large number of blogs using Google Reader. One of the searches I do finds links to TOCWOC’s URL, and it was in the results of this search that I first came across Civil War Talk’s “Civil War Blog Reader” forum. Excerpts and links from various Civil War blogs are posted in […]
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Short Takes
Did you know that US president and Union Civil War general Rutherford B. Hayes is a national hero in … Paraguay? Forget Lincoln or Washington. Hayes – a one-term U.S. president who is undistinguished at home – has a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team all named in his honor, […]
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Watch The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Online
Did that title draw you in? Yes? Was it misleading? To an extent, yes it was. 🙂 Though I missed the deluge of Lincoln literature yesterday on the 200th anniversary of Honest Abe’s birth, I did want to pass along an interesting Lincoln-related web site I found while surfing through the various Civil War forums […]