I’ve tried to be as transparent as possible with sharing my experience in seeing a book manuscript through to publication. Some of you have been with me since 2007, when I first announced that I might have the opportunity to publish what was then only a Master’s Thesis. As I got closer to publication I [...]
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A week from today I will be speaking in Manhattan at the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York. This is my first time speaking in the “Big Apple” and I am very much looking forward to it. I will likely leave Boston early and spend the day roaming around the city. The event includes [...]
For those of you who live in the greater Boston area and are looking to get out for a few hours tomorrow evening I would love to see you in Newburyport. More specifically, in nearby Salisbury [East Parish United Methodist Church, 8 Lafayette Rd. (Rt. 1)]. I will be giving a talk to the Merrimac [...]
Thanks to David Thomson for the opportunity to interview with The Civil War Monitor’s new series, Behind the Lines. We talked mainly about my Crater book and toward the end I babble on a bit about blogging and social media. If you are curious the book is doing very well. Some of you are familiar [...]
Earlier today I was interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by Gerry Prokopowicz of East Carolina University. We talked mainly about the book, including the battle, William Mahone’s political career, the two Crater reenactments, and briefly about interpretation at the Crater today. This is my second appearance on CWTR. The first time was back in [...]
A few weeks ago I was interviewed, along with Glenn LaFantasie, at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. It was a real honor to be invited to take part in their Virtual Book Signing program. The interview and book signing was recorded and is now available on their YouTube channel. The store still has [...]
I couldn’t be more pleased to hear that we are one step closer to seeing Petersburg’s South Side Depot renovated and utilized by the National Park Service as a welcome center and as a site to interpret the city’s rich Civil War history and beyond. It’s nice to see the involvement of the Civil War [...]
At about this time the USCTs of the Ninth Corp’s Fourth Division had entered the battle. Part of one brigade ended up in the confusion of the crater itself, but much of the division managed to maneuver to its right and into the confusing and complex chain of earthworks that extended outward. A couple of [...]
