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Civil War Times Volume 45, Number 5 (July 2006) Civil War Times Web Site Page 6 Turning Points: Crossing the Mississippi by Jeffry D. Wert The crossing of the Mississippi by Grant’s Army of the Tennessee at Bruinsburg, Mississippi is the focus of this issue’s Turning Points column. Jeffrey Wert discusses Grant’s plan to have […]

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I may as well weigh in on the military history debate also. My take, speaking as a reader and after reading a lot of it, is that at present amateurs write the best military history. By far. By amateurs I mean “not professional historians.” Some examples are Gordon Rhea and Eric Wittenberg, both lawyers who […]

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In three interesting posts, Kevin Levin, Eric Wittenberg, and Drew Wagenhoffer have weighed in on New Military History. I posted my feelings on the subject on all three blogs, and I thought it might be interesting to share my thoughts on my own blog as well. The following few paragraphs are my comments, verbatim: Drew, […]

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Blogger Kevin Levin over at Civil War Memory is set to appear on Civil War Talk Radio today to talk about his work on the Crater, as well as race and memory during and after the war.  Thanks to both Kevin and Andy MacIsaac for pointing this out.  For those of you who don’t know, […]

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Why Does Brett Review Older Books? Books on the Civil War and Film My Film History Books Fiction As Fact: The Horse Soldiers & Popular Memory. Neil Longley York. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (May 2001). 176 pp. 1 map, many illustrations. I’ve been a film history buff almost as long as I’ve been […]

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Update your bookmarks, ladies and gentlemen. Kevin Levin had moved his blog from the old blogspot address to a new typepad address. The new version of Kevin’s Blog can be found at Civil War Memory. Check out Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online for the latest on the Siege of Petersburg!

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At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, formal hostilities during the Great War came to an end with the German signing of an armistice. Though the United States had not participated in the war to the same extent as European nations, Armistice Day immediately became a day of […]

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