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• Why Don't You Take It?

  Category: Friday Funny Posted: 5/18/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

  Good morning! Today's Friday Funny is an 1861 Currier & Ives sketch commenting on the Union's substantial advantage in terms war materiel. Read More

• CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)

  Category: Book Reviews Posted: 5/16/2012 Author: John J. Langdale III | 

  In Ministers and Masters, Charity Carney furnishes a concise study of antebellum southern Methodist ministers and their often remarkable intersections with the culture of southern honor... Read More

• SCARBOROUGH: The Allstons of Chicora Wood (2011)

  Category: Book Reviews Posted: 5/16/2012 Author: Alex Macaulay | 

  The Allstons of Chicora Wood is an interesting and frustrating book. What began as a standard biography of antebellum South Carolina governor and rice planter Robert F.W. Allston, evolved over the course of the author's research into a broader study of the Allston family... Read More

• John Mackie: The Man and the Memory

  Category: Iron Men Afloat Posted: 5/15/2012 Author: Laura June Davis | 

  One rarely thinks of the United States Marine Corps and the Civil War in the same thought. Given their small size and limited service, this is not surprising. And yet hidden away in a rarely visited section of the Richmond National Battlefield Park?Drewry?s Bluff?sits an interpretative marker honoring Corporal John F. Mackie Read More