According to my Feedburner account there are currently 2,542 people who subscribe to Civil War Memory via RSS Feed (the vast majority through Google Reader). That seems like a pretty good number to me, but at the same time I am told that I “Reach” 0 people. What is Reach? “Reach is the total number [...]
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Bob Kenzer, Charles Dew, Gregg Kimball, Lauranett Lee While the population of Virginia was expanding there were problems. Va was a net exporter of people. Many white Virginians had to make very difficult decisions such as Cyrus McCormick who moved to Chicago. Important to distinguish between the many geographic sections of Virginia. Keep in mind [...]
Christy Coleman, Gary Gallagher, Joan Waugh, Walter Johnson, Edward L. Ayers Panelists are going to paint a broad panorama of what the nation looked like in 1859. EA: What will leep out of the 1859 census? GG: Growth of the nation and expansion of information network. Dominant theme: growth and energy. JW: Two largest immigrant [...]
I‘ve been following the first two stories on the blog. First, Alabama lawmakers passed a resolution to honor the state’s first black lawmakers during Reconstruction. Plaques will be placed throughout the capitol grounds. This second story on a proposed change to the Maryland state song stirred up a great deal of discussion on the blog. [...]
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I hope you don’t mind a bit more tooting of my own horn, this time in the pages of the latest issue of America’s Civil War[May 2009, p. 69] which includes a very nice review of Civil War Memory by Kelvin Holland: Aside from a new address and a clean new theme, the newly overhauled [...]
Itry to keep the tooting of my own horn to a minimum, but I think you will understand why I feel a need to share this recent email. It’s from an acquaintance who teaches history at Elon University and it made my day. We’ve met before, most recently I think at last summer’s SCWH conference [...]
A few weeks ago fellow blogger, Robert Moore, inquired about my latest theme. I understand the curiosity given the recent unveiling of a custom design back in December. Hell, I’ve been changing themes on a regular basis since I started blogging back in 2005. For one reason or another I was never satisfied with the [...]
