I find the charge of presentism one of the most annoying things someone can say to a historian. Every historian is deeply affected by the times in which they live. There is no such thing as pure objectivity nor history disconnected from politics or everyday...
Civil War
The Detroit Daily Advertiser, late 1860/early 1861 (I do not have an exact date): "Every horse thief, murderer, gambler, robber, and other rogue of high and low degree, fled to.
If you haven't read Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece on why African-Americans avoid centering the Civil War in their history, why the Civil War is so associated with whites in public memory,.
I recently visited the Torn in Two exhibit at the Boston Public Library. Using maps at the primary storyteller, this exhibit told the story of the Civil War. Running until the end of the year, I highly recommend it for anyone visiting Boston. Maps are...
Count me as one who is quite glad that William Tecumseh Sherman sufficiently recovered from his severe depression to burn Georgia and South Carolina.
Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, not only one of my favorite books about the Civil War, but one of my favorite non-fiction books ever, has recently published.
Very interesting stuff, suggesting our standard estimates of death during the Civil War are significantly underestimated.
Why do I not find it the least bit surprising that the "Tigers" in the LSU Tigers is not named for the animal but for the Louisiana Tigers, a notoriously.
Allow me to share Mark Greenbaum's outrage over Chadwick Matlin's poorly thought out and virtually unexplained list of the worst Congresses in U.S. history, ending with the "inarguably-awful 37th," which.
Yoni Applebaum has an interesting piece on the popularity of reenacting the U.S. Civil War in Germany. While one might poo-poo any real analysis of this as being just Gone with the Wind romanticism without any political meaning, I'd be skeptical to agree. As one...
I find this paper interesting for a different reason than Matt does; namely, that it's a classic example of "drawing inferences far beyond what your data can actually support." Even.
Interesting. At my junior high (the illustrious Moss Junior High School), US history paid a bit of attention to strategic issues in the Mexican-American War, a bit of attention to.