Civil War Adventure Camp is a 16-hour overnight camp re-enactment experience. While this is a re-enactment of The Civil War, slavery is not mentioned and The Confederate flag is never flown. The main focus of the camp is military strategy and surviving the brutal serving conditions of serving during the 19th-century. Civil War Adventure Camp […]
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Blogger and historian Kevin Levin has added six new books to his Civil War Memory library. The new additions cover a wide variety of topics, including black Civil War regiments, escaped-slave refugee camps, infantry tactics, the state of race, law and public debt in Virginia, and biography. One entry, Joe Gould’s Teeth, is not exclusively
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Blogger and historian Kevin Levin, a former high school history teacher, was recently dismayed to hear a retired Civil War historian suggest that Americans are becoming more ignorant of history compared to past generations. On the contrary, he argues that such a claim ignores history and historical context, such as racial and social disparities, access
Fear Mongering With History Read Post »
Chapter One of this book on black Confederates describes the unique dynamic of the master-slave relationship during wartime. Once the setting changed from home to the battlefield and camps, slaves seized opportunities to bend the rules and occasionally escape. This caused their masters to afford them a degree of flexibility not previously allowed. In an
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The Civil War Trust Teacher Institute, held this year in Richmond, VA, is a great resource for History teachers with an interest in the civil war. The author attended this year’s program with the Civil War Trust, leading a talk and a tour of the Crater. The rich selection of historically interesting locations in Richmond
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Although New York City sat deep into Union territory geographically during the Civil War, close business ties to the South through Wall Street’s financial interests in the tobacco and cotton industries brought about defiance within the city towards Lincoln and the Union. Deadly riots against Lincoln and his wartime policies brought about bloodshed and chaos
When New York, Leery of Losing Business, Leaned Dixie Read Post »
The National Archives Project will allow Jewish soldiers of the civil war to be identified and will be available online in 2017, including photographs and written documents. Currently, records have only been available from “The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen”, by Simon Wolfs in 1985, which comprised of a total of 10,000 names;
A Very Jewish Civil War Read Post »
A great question from Manassas National Battlefield Park. Asking readers would you go to war in an attempt to make people second guess their usually passionate responses. The author invites us to use our hindsight to look back at the past and possibly decide different than our fore fathers did in the past. Key Takeaways:
Would you have gone to war? Read Post »
