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• Michigan and the Civil War Sesquicentennial

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  At the Michigan Historical Commissions most recent meeting on November 19th, a revised workplan -- based on public input and comment -- for the Sesquicentennial commemoration was approved. It will no doubt be posted on the appropriate website down the road, but here it is as well: Download MHC CWS plan
  2 days ago

• David Reynolds Petitions Obama and Kaine to Pardon John Brown

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 470
  I guess we should have anticipated such a move on this sesquicentennial of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry.  It’s an indication that Brown’s reputation has taken a significant turn since the end of the 1960s and that even Virginia may have a different outlook (at least northern Virginia) on this crucial ...
  4 days ago

• “…Slavery and race were absolutely critical elements in the coming of the war”

  
  The Democratic Daily — Authority: 110
  I just saw another Rebel-flag emblazoned “Heritage not Hate” bumper sticker. I suspect I’ll see more during the sesquicentennial observances of the Civil War.  The “Heritage not Hate” folks claim slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War. Neo-Confederates – and there are more than a few in my ...
  6 days ago

• Dress-Up

  
  Bull Runnings — Authority: 125
  Kevin Levin has posted this article over at Civil War Memory.  I have no dog in this fight: I am not nor have I ever been a re-enactor or “living historian”, whatever that means.  And I don’t attend – purposely, anyway – re-enactments.  I was vaguely planning to be in the area for the 150th [...]
  1 week ago

• $250,000 for a Reenactment?

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 470
  I attended a couple of meetings early on of the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial committee.  During one meeting “Bud” Robertson explained why the committee would not fund reenactments.  He expressed concern that they might prove embarrassing as did the first major reenactment at Manassas in 1961 at the ...
  1 week ago

• Civil War Sesquicentennial workplan

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  The Michigan Historical Commission holds its final 2009 meeting tomorrow, and on the agenda is a discussion of the CWS (among, of course, other things). Progress continues...
  2 weeks ago

• Progress on the sesquicentennial

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  The Michigan Civi War Sesquicentennial Committee met today to review an updated and revised plan based on public input from meetings and hearings around the State earlier this year. The Committees charge was to recommend a document for next weeks Michigan Historical Commission meeting in order to finalize the plan ...
  3 weeks ago

• Virginia’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Arrives in the Classroom

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 470
  From the beginning of its formation, one of the central goals for the Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission has been educational outreach.  It is doing this in a number of ways from organizing conferences to creating mobile exhibits that will travel throughout the state between 2011 and 2015.  Included in this is the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Manassas: The 150th Anniversary

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 140
  There’s the teaser. But to what? 2009….hmmmm 2011…150 years since First Manassas. Is there a movie coming out? What plans are in store to mark this page in history? Fishing for information. Our contributors are the post on this thread. Inquiring minds want to know…
  4 weeks ago

• Grant: hero, myth, and forgotten

  
  Michigan Civil War Blog — Authority: 122
  Just picked up Joan Waughs US Grant: American Hero, American Myth . Yet another Grant book?! This one came out Fall 2009, so unlike many books that one prefers to let age a bit before plinking down the coin for it seemed worth a look, since Dr. Waugh attempts to explain how Grant could be so popular in his day and ...
  4 weeks ago

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