October 2008

Will the Real Weary Clyburn Please Stand Up

I finally got my hands on a copy of Weary Clyburn’s pension application from the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in Raleigh.  You may remember that over the [...]

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The Politically Incorrect [or just the Incorrect] Guide to the Civil War

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Were You Lucky Enough to Attend a High School Named After a Slaveowner and Founder of the Ku Klux Klan?

Well, if you attended high school in Jacksonville, Florida (of all places) after 1959 you probably did.  How did a high school in Florida end up being named after a [...]

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Is Dimitri Accusing James McPherson of Plagiarism?

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The 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Myth, Memory, and History

Today my Civil War classes finished watching the movie Glory, which is still my all-time favorite Civil War movie.  Students enjoy the movie in part because of the heroic story [...]

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