November 2008

Welcome to the New Site

by Kevin Levin on November 11, 2008 · 2 comments · Follow me on

in Uncategorized

The Kubrick theme is temporary until the new template is ready to be unveiled in about a month.  It will take some time for me to set up the blogroll and other links.  The process of importing everything looks to have gone smoothly enough, although some of the images have been lost and a few [...]

What’s Wrong With A.P. Hill?

by Kevin Levin on November 10, 2008 · 9 comments · Follow me on

in Lost Cause

I’m sure this scene titled “Tender is the Heart” by Mort Kunstler has some basis in fact, but why would you want to paint it? Add Thomas Forehand’s The Softer Side of Robert E. Lee and you’ll be crying your eyes out for the foreseeable future.

Congratulations John Latschar

by Kevin Levin on November 10, 2008 · 7 comments · Follow me on

in Battlefield Interpretation

John Latschar has accepted a position as the next president of the Gettysburg Foundation after 14 years with the NPS.  During that time he has overseen major changes to the battlefield, including the demolition of the national tower and landscape rehabilitation.  His most important project was the planning and completion of a new state-of-the-art visitor [...]

Stay, Forrest! Stay! (for now)

by Kevin Levin on November 9, 2008 · 3 comments · Follow me on

in Civil Rights History, Lost Cause, Southern History

Civil War Memory Turns Three

by Kevin Levin on November 7, 2008 · 11 comments · Follow me on

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Three years ago this weekend I started blogging at Civil War Memory.  At the time I had little sense of what I was doing or where it would lead.  Over time the place of blogging within my broader historical interests has become much more carefully defined.  It has led to writing projects, speaking invitations, and [...]

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