TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

I’ve been aware of the History Carnival for several years now, but I only recently stumbled on the Military History Carnival, with the main page hosted by Gavin Robinson at Investigations of a Dog. On that main page, Gavin specifically asks Civil War bloggers to submit more posts: Posts should be more recent than the […]

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In an interesting coincidence, Mark Grimsley blogged about his recent remarks at the March 29 Organization of American Historians round table. Why coincidence you say? Because Mark spoke about the destructiveness of the Civil War around the same time I was reviewing and blogging about The Hard Hand of War, his book on the subject. […]

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From time to time I’ll Google my full name (first and last) to see what sort of interesting items turn up. Imagine my surprise when I learned I had been mentioned in a published book HERE. Will Kaufman’s The Civil War in American Culture mentions me in reference to my work as a Civil War […]

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Drew Wagenhoffer, who I introduced earlier this week as an occasional guest blogger here, has also decided to get into the ACW blogging business full time. His new blog, Civil War Books and Authors, features “discussions of the Civil War books, authors, publishers, and booksellers that interest [Drew]”. His collection of books dwarfs mine, and […]

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