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  • Civil War Talk Radio: January 23, 2009

    Air Date: 012309 Subject: Lincoln’s Views on Race Book:  The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) & The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War – Volume II Guest: Professor Edna Greene Medford Summary: Professor Edna Greene Medford of Howard University discusses Lincoln and his views on […]

  • Are Slavery and Emancipation the ONLY Things Worth Studying from the American Civil War?

    There have been quite a few mentions of the Gettysburg Visitor Center over the past few weeks in the Civil War blogosphere, and some of this has spilled over into the question of what type of interpretation should be seen at our Civil War battlefield visitor centers. John Hennessy, National Park Service Chief Historian at […]

  • Odds & Ends: June 21, 2008

    This Odds & Ends is going out while I’m in LA on a business trip.  I’ll probably either be packing up our booth from the Trade Show or on a plane home when you read this.  Good thing you get to do some Civil War related reading while I’m away! 😉 Old Picture of the […]

  • Odds & Ends: April 29, 2008

    For your reading pleasure, I present you with my latest gathered “Odds & Ends” of interest to Civil War buffs: Would it have been possible to win the Civil War by never launching an attack? Some surgical statistics of the American Civil War on an RPG forum, a place I never thought I’d see Civil […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: April 25, 2008

    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 […]

  • Juneteenth, Slavery and (lack of) Forgiveness

    Cross posted at Touch The Elbow In an issue last week, buried in Section B of the Charleston Post and Courier was an article about Juneteenth, specifically that it looks very good that SC will soon be recognizing it – just not as a holiday. In previous posts at Touch The Elbow (here and here) […]

  • Civil War Talk Radio: January 18, 2008

    Civil War Talk Radio Air Date: 011808 Subject: Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln Guest: Gerald Prokopowicz (Gerry talks about his new Lincoln book above.) Civil War Talk Radio airs most Fridays at 12 PM Pacific on World Talk Radio Studio A. Host Gerry Prokopowicz, the History Chair at […]