Update: Gilles Biassette interviews Peter Carmichael in La Croix. Last Friday I spent the afternoon with Gilles Biassette, who writes for La Croix in France. He spent a few days in the United States talking with people about the Civil War Sesquicentennial. We talked about a wide range of topics as we walked through Lee [...]
Friday, March 11, 2011
I haven’t done a Civil War Roundtable talk in some time, but I almost always enjoy the experience, especially the Q&A with folks who share my passion for this history. Today I accepted an invitation from the North Worcester County Civil War Roundtable to give a talk on black Confederates. The talk is scheduled for [...]
Things are a bit slow around here as I continue to pack up my library and work to get the house ready to show. I have to say that I’ve begun to embrace the downsizing of my library. I’ve never had a bibliophile’s attachment to books; rather, they have always held an instrumental value based [...]