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Booth Family Drama
Nora Titone’s My Thoughts Be Bloody (2010) provides an interesting new perspective on the Lincoln assassination. Unlike most books on the topic, Nora begins with the colorful exodus of the Booth...
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Civil War Prison Camp Discovered in Georgia
The archaeological remains of an Annex to the notorious Confederate prison camp Andersonville have been discovered in Millen, Georgia. You can hear an overview of the discovery in this CNN news clip....
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Review of Recent Scholarship on the Civil War
It should come as no surprise with the Sesquecentennial of the Civil War upon us that a flurry of scholarship is currently being published on the conflict. Each publication tries to outdo the other in...
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“I Returned To My Tree In The Rain”
My research has had me reading a lot over the past few months about trauma, specifically combat related trauma. As I prepared my remarks for a presentation at the New England Modern Language...
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NEMLA 2014 Call for Papers: The Battle of Gettysburg in Fiction and Film
Call for Papers High Water Mark of War: The Battle of Gettysburg in Fiction and Film 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
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Call for Papers: PCA/ACA Civil War and Reconstruction Section
Call for Papers: The American Civil War and Reconstruction Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference 2014 April 16-19, 2014 Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent...
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Colorizing Civil War Photographs
This morning a post showed up on the C-19 Listserv for nineteenth-century Americanists that linked to a Daily Mail article on the efforts of two technicians to colorize Civil War era photographs. You...
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Searching for the Right Metaphor: Veterans in Popular Culture
My research on veterans has been driven by a number of questions. Foremost among them has been how we as a culture choose to represent veterans in the United States. Naturally the answer to this...
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American Civil War and Reconstruction at the PCA-ACA Annual Conference April...
The American Civil War and Reconstruction Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference 2015 April 1-4, 2015 New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street New Orleans, LA...
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Civil War Prison Camp Discovered in Georgia
The archaeological remains of an Annex to the notorious Confederate prison camp Andersonville have been discovered in Millen, Georgia. You can hear an overview of the discovery in this CNN news clip....
View Article“My Freedom Tastes Different From Yours”: A Review of Benjamin Cooper’s...
Benjamin Cooper, Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship From Revolution to Reconstruction, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. Paper. ISBN: 9781625343314. $27.95....
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