2017-06-14 20:21
Well, I have exciting news to share with you all. I began my new job on June 5 with the North Dakota State Archives, with my title being Reference Specialist. I am overjoyed at the chance to… Read More
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2017-05-16 04:40
With all the craziness that has surrounded my life the last few weeks, as I finished my teaching job at Northland and prepare to move to the Bismarck area for my new job as an archivist with… Read More
2017-05-09 20:43
On today’s episode of the Ryan Cunningham Show on 1310 KNOX AM, the local talk radio station in Grand Forks, host Ryan Cunningham noted the changing of an elementary school’s nam… Read More
2017-03-17 01:56
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28th ANNUAL CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT AT NESHAMINY STATE PARK
The Battle of Antietam
(January 23, 2017, Philadelp… Read More
2016-04-26 05:49
I routinely enjoy listening to the personalities on the local talk radio station, KNOX AM 1310, as they cover a variety of topics and have moments of amusement on occasion. Ryan Cunningham… Read More
2016-04-26 04:13
What a great day today! The St. Louis Blues beat the Blackhawks to advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs and I was hired as a year-long sabbatical replacement at Northland Community and Techni… Read More
2016-04-12 06:10
Today marks the 155th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter that inaugurated the Civil War. It is interesting to note that I received the April issue of The Journal of Military History ye… Read More
2016-03-04 22:00
I had an awesome time this afternoon getting to talk the Civil War with a group of middle school students in California. I reached out to Gary Kaplan, who has provided several insightful com… Read More
2016-01-26 06:15
First, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and are entering 2016 with optimism and happiness.
The last two Sundays have witnessed a new Civil War drama premiering on PBS dealing w… Read More
2015-09-09 06:14
As I continue to watch the rebroadcast of The Civil War on PBS, I find that the remastering has proven to make some of the imagery used by Burns quite crisp and clear, which was his goal. Th… Read More
2015-09-08 01:44
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the Civil War blogging community about the rebroadcast, which is starting tonight, of Ken Burns’ monumental documentary The Civil W… Read More
2015-07-18 08:01
If you follow the US military and the blogging world that surrounds it, you may have visited Duffel Blog. This site presents all the hilarity and wit of the legendary satire publication The… Read More
2015-07-07 07:20
As some of you may know, I have been involved with Civil War reenacting for five years now, serving in units portraying both sides of the conflict over that time. While I am no expert by any… Read More
2015-06-19 05:49
I posted about this almost four years ago, then updated on the story after readers and fellow bloggers alerted me to some pertinent details. Now, the controversy over the Sons of Confederate… Read More
2015-06-18 20:04
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The original journals of a Civil War veteran, Chicagoland native are… Read More
2015-06-11 02:32
As many of my readers will know, military history, and the Civil War specifically are not just about soldiers and the movements of armies on battlefields, though these are usually the most p… Read More
2015-04-22 06:22
There is a fascinating discussion going on over at H-CivWar about the current state of stand alone history courses on the Civil War. So far, the respondents indicated that the institutions t… Read More
2015-04-16 05:35
To my loyal blog readers, my apologies for not actually posting something worthy on the actual anniversaries recently, but I do want to share with you that the last several days have commemo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today marks the 150th anniversary of an event, where roughly two minutes of “a few appropriate remarks” by President Lincoln became American history and myth. Though memorized by… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
From The Times Record (Brunswick, ME) After being discovered in the back of a book in Duxbury, Mass., the original Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Col. Joshua Chamberlain h… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Wednesday, September 9. General William S. Rosecrans’s Federal Army of the Cumberland entered Chattanooga this morning. Rosecrans wired General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck, “… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Wednesday, September 2. In eastern Tennessee, General Ambrose Burnside’s Federal Army of the Ohio entered Knoxville unopposed. The city had been virtually undefended, as most Con… Read More
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