The Lee v. Grant Twitter Experiment
From time to time, as you all by now surely know, I ask some sort of little question on Twitter to get the ball rolling toward a conversation. Recently I asked the hypothetical: “Who would you rather...
View ArticleSpeaking Engagement in Pasadena – October 28th
Greetings to my Southern California friends – I will be speaking to the Pasadena Civil War Round Table on October 28th at 7:15 PM. The place: the Pasadena Central Library. The topic: Civil War veterans...
View ArticleHow Not to Use Twitter
Or rather…how to use Twitter poorly. This post will initiate a series discussing the things one should and should not do when using Twitter…or if you like, Social Media etiquette. I am specifically...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
And alas we have reached the end of another year. I hope your 2014 was a smashing success. Here in Hollywood, this year saw the publication of my first book, Across the Bloody Chasm and the launch of...
View ArticleA Response to Mr. Fisher
Yesterday I took an admittedly snarky couple of jabs at Ben Jones, former Georgia state legislator and actor who portrayed Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard. In it, I questioned Jones’s and the SCV’s...
View ArticleI’ll Have the Stewed Kidneys and Minced Codfish
I have recently developed a fascination for nineteenth-century food and eating: when, where, what…and for reasons I can barely fathom (in some cases), why. I will say this, though some of the menu...
View ArticleRacism in Reconstruction Politics
I often show images such as these to my APUSH students when we discuss the racism embedded in Reconstruction Era political discourse. While nearly all white Americans (from both sides of the political...
View ArticleWas the Battle of Gettysburg the Turning Point of the Civil War?
I got an email recently from a Battle of Gettysburg student (Mike B.) asking me to clarify something I said about the battle on the Interwebs. I mentioned something along the lines of “Gettysburg is...
View ArticleAmerican Civil War Web-Course
Greetings all! I have been posting updates on Twitter of late chronicling the progress of my next web-course: The American Civil War. I am very pleased to announce that the launch date is May 1, 2016....
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