TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Tony Horowitz (Confederates in the Attic) has an article on “150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War.” A better title would be “150 Years of Changing Interpretations of the Civil War.” Historians, as Lord Acton observed, are merely politicians looking backwards, and they have their own prejudices and points of view. As he notes most […]

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“98.2% of celeb internet quotes are bogus” — Abraham Lincoln Telegraph columnist Christopher Howse checks into yet another plagiarism scandal, then notes how many historical quotes just can’t be verified and are likely false. All the more reason to be suspicious. We are not amused, and they can eat…cake. NOAA and the US Navy are […]

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“The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.” Who said it? Yep, that ol’ unreconstructed Neo-Confederate, Karl Marx himself! That and many other period quotes are […]

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Civil War History Published Quarterly by the Kent State University Press Volume 54, Number 3 (September 2008) Civil War History Web Site Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army…..229 by Joseph T. Glatthaar Joseph Glatthaar, author of General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008), takes a statistically valid sample of […]

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Air Date: 042508 Subject: The Origins of Southern White Identity in the Slave Holding South Book: The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir’s Civil War (New Narratives in American History) Guest: Professor William L. Barney Summary: Professor William L. Barney discusses his new book The Making of a Confederate, about a man whose family owns […]

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Air Date: 042905 Subject: John M. Coski: Should the Stars be Barred? Books: The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem Guest: John M. Coski Summary: Dr. John M. Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy talks about the subject of his book, The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. Brett’s Summary: John Coski […]

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