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• Thomas H. Cross Remembers the Crater

  Once in awhile I browse on Ebay for cheap Civil War books.  A couple of weeks ago I noticed the collection of postwar sources called The New Annals of the Civil War by Peter Cozzens and Robert I. Girardi.  I placed a fairly low bid on the book and was lucky enough to win it. 

  4 Comments — 70 Views — May 9, 2006

• Seinfeld on Immigration

  Given the divisiveness surrounding the debate over immigration I thought I would share my own view.  It is not too far from the position that Jerry Seinfeld lays out in his monologue in the episode about Babu Bhat: I am for open immigration but that sign we have on the front of the Statue of Liberty,

  1 Comments — 173 Views — May 20, 2006

• H-Net Review

  Rufus Robbins. _Through Ordinary Eyes: The Civil War Correspondence of Rufus Robbins, Private, 7th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers_. Edited by Ella Jane Bruen and Brian M. Fitzgibbons. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8032-9006-3. Reviewed for H-CivWar by Kevin M. Levin, History Department, St. Anne’s-Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia A Private’s

  0 Comments — 56 Views — July 10, 2006

• Teaching Racism in a war to “Make the World Safe for Democracy”

  In the most recent issue of Harper’s Magazine you will find in the “Readings” section a very interesting directive that was issued by Colonel J.A. Linard (chief of the French Military Mission) to French military officers on the front lines informing them of how to handle race relations with black American soldiers. The document reveals

  0 Comments — 58 Views — April 9, 2006

• SCWH Call For Papers

  The second biennial meeting of the Society of Civil War Historians is scheduled for next June in Richmond.  Below you will find the call for papers.  I organized a panel and presented a paper at last year’s inaugural meeting in Philadelphia and had a wonderful time.  It’s a relatively small conference, but it brings together

  2 Comments — 262 Views — June 8, 2009