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For information concerning the blogs, inquiries into becoming a blogger for The Civil War Monitor, or general questions, please contact the Contributing Editor: 

Laura June Davis
laura@civilwarmonitor.com

Archive

• June 2014
  • Sneak Peek | Lincoln Considered
  • Sneak Peak | Ron Maxwell Q&A
  • Summer Dessert Recipes
• June 2013
  • BALLARD: Grant at Vicksburg (2013)
  • An Interview with Allen Guelzo
  • DAVIS: What the Yankees Did to Us (2012)
  • A New Battle for Brandy Station
  • An Interview with Ron Maxwell
  • KELMAN: A Misplaced Massacre (2013)
  • Friends Across the Color Line
• May 2013
  • An Interview with Michael David Cohen
  • FINCK: Divided Loyalties (2012)
  • JORDAN: Unholy Sabbath (2012)
  • ROBINS (ed.): They Have Left Us Here To Die (2011)
  • Captain Kit Dalton on Guerrilla Memory, Civility, and the Rules of War
  • An Interview with John Marszalek
  • HASEGAWA: Mending Broken Soldiers (2012)
  • BERGERON: Andrew Johnson's Civil War (2011)
  • AYERS & MARTIN (eds.): America on the Eve of the Civil War (2010)
  • Grant and the Forgotten Court of Inquiry
  • An Interview with William A. Link
  • GUELZO: Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013)
  • "The Most Fatal of All Acute Diseases:" Pneumonia and the Death of Stonewall Jackson
  • An Interview with CWI's Peter Carmichael
  • GALLAGHER: Becoming Confederates (2013)
  • An Excerpt from Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front
  • An Interview with Wayne E. Motts
  • OAKES: Freedom National (2012)
• April 2013
  • Civil War Desserts
  • A Civil War Era Royal Wedding
  • "The Grandest Charity in the Country:" The Missouri Home For Confederate Veterans
  • An Interview with Jeff Rosenheim
  • GOURLEY: Diverging Loyalties (2011)
  • An Interview with Marion Moser Jones
  • TEWELL: A Self-Evident Lie (2013)
  • ERWIN: Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri (2012)
  • QUARSTEIN: The CSS Virginia (2012)
  • "Brooklyn" in Charleston
• March 2013
  • SCOTT & HEBRARD: Freedom Papers (2012)
  • DIRCK: Abraham Lincoln and White America (2012)
  • LUBET: John Brown's Spy (2012)
  • An Interview with Ron Coddington
  • DAVIS (ed.): Bully for the Band! (2012)
  • An Interview with David Silkenat
  • BOMAN: Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri (2011)
  • Natural Selection at Pea Ridge
• February 2013
  • SIMPSON, SEARS, SHEEHAN-DEAN (eds.): The Civil War: The First Year (2011)
  • CODDINGTON: African American Faces of the Civil War (2012)
  • MOAT: Killing Lincoln (2013)
  • LAFANTASIE (ed.): The Union Forever (2012)
  • Stealing A General
  • An 1863 Valentine
  • WILLIAMS: My Old Confederate Home (2010)
  • DESJARDIN (ed.): Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters (2012)
  • An Interview with Jill Titus
• January 2013
  • MASUR: Lincoln's Hundred Days (2012)
  • An Interview with Scott Hartwig
  • FOOTE: The Gentlemen and the Roughs (2010)
  • HESS: The Civil War in the West (2012)
  • 2012 | The Year in Review
  • An Interview with Brian Craig Miller
  • How We Need to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Lincoln and Django Unchained (2013)
  • CECELSKI: The Fire of Freedom (2012)
  • TARANTINO: Django Unchained (2012)
• December 2012
  • DAVIS: A Taste For War (2011)
  • HERDEGEN: The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory (2012)
  • ARENSON: The Great Heart of the Republic (2011)
  • Holiday Civil War Trivia Contest: Winner
  • Holiday Civil War Trivia Contest #2
  • CODDINGTON: Faces of the Civil War (2012)
  • Holiday Civil War Trivia Contest
• November 2012
  • SPIELBERG: Lincoln (2012) [Take 2]
  • "Not Since the Days of William the Conquerer" - Anti-War Democrats of Ohio in their Own Words
  • GREEN: Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (2011)
  • An Interview with Clay Risen
  • SPIELBERG: Lincoln (2012) [Take 1]
  • Wither Liberia? Civil War Emancipation and Freedmen Resettlement in West Africa
  • HEWITT & SCHOTT (eds.): Lee and His Generals (2012)
  • An Interview with Cathy Wright
• October 2012
  • DANIELSON: War's Desolating Scourge (2012)
  • The Peace Monument At Appomattox, UDC, and Reconstruction
  • An Interview with Barbara Gannon
  • BRASHER: The Peninsula Campaign (2012)
  • An Interview with Lisa Brady
  • FRYE: September Suspense (2012)
  • An Interview with Anne Rubin
  • STAUFFER & TRODD (eds.): The Tribunal (2012)
  • The Myth of the H.L. Hunley's Blue Lantern
  • An Interview with Kevin Levin
  • JOHNSON: Decided on the Battlefield (2012)
  • The Consequences of Damning the Torpedoes
• September 2012
  • An Interview with Glenn Brasher
  • BENDER (ed.): Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight (2011)
  • MEIER: Suite Harmonic (2011)
  • An Interview with Aaron Astor
  • The Battle For Freedom: Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation
  • BURNS (director): Death and the Civil War
  • An Interview with Ric Burns
  • MCPHERSON: War on the Waters (2012)
  • An Interview with Jim Downs
  • LEVIN: Remembering the Battle of the Crater (2012)
• August 2012
  • An Interview with Keith Harris
  • WILLIAMS & BURKHIMER (eds.): The Mary Lincoln Enigma (2012)
  • Bowdoin's Other Civil War Sons
  • Fathering Recruitment
  • An Interview with Elizabeth Leonard
  • NELSON: Ruin Nation (2012)
  • Hercules of the Union
  • Week in Review: August 12th-17th
  • An Interview with Megan Kate Nelson
  • DIRCK: Lincoln and the Constitution (2012)
  • Week in Review: August 5th-12th
  • An interview with Peter Carmichael
  • An introduction to "Behind the Lines" from your host David Thomson
  • SARNA & MENDELSOHN (eds.): Jews and the Civil War (2011)
  • John Sherman and the Would-Be Thirteenth Amendment of 1861
  • CURRAN (ed.): John Dooley's Civil War (2011)
  • NEWMAN & MUELLER (eds.): Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia (2011)
• July 2012
  • Munson Monroe Buford's Unfinished Civil War
  • WILLS: George Henry Thomas (2012)
  • Fantasizing Lee as a Civil Rights Pioneer
  • HUGHES & RUSHING (eds.): Refugitta of Richmond (2011)
  • ARDEN & POWELL: Letters From the Storm (2010)
  • EMERSON: Giant in the Shadows (2012)
  • HOLZER, SYMONDS, & WILLIAMS (eds.): The Lincoln Assassination (2010)
  • BRADY: War Upon the Land (2012)
• June 2012
  • Dark Artillery
  • GILPIN: John Brown Still Lives! (2011)
  • The Intrepid
  • The New Orleans Plum
  • The Railsplitter
  • DUNKELMAN: Marching With Sherman (2012)
  • FLECHE: The Revolution of 1861 (2012)
  • The Cumberland
  • The Week in Review: June 11th-15th
  • Not Up To Time
  • STERNHELL: Routes of War (2012)
  • Elegy for the Native Guards
  • The Week in Review: June 3rd-9th
  • Masterly Inactivity
  • MCWHIRTER: Battle Hymns (2012)
  • FELLMAN: Views from the Dark Side of American History (2011)
  • Sinbad Lincoln and the Old Man of the Sea
• May 2012
  • Battle of Seven Pines
  • Form follows Function: Changing Audiences Bring Changes to Interpretations
  • REARDON: With a Sword in One Hand (2012)
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest, Reconstructed
  • The First Battle of Winchester
  • Neutrality or Death?
  • Battle of Front Royal
  • PATCHAN: Second Manassas (2011)
  • The Week Ahead: May 21st-27th
  • Lorena
  • Why Don't You Take It?
  • CARNEY: Ministers and Masters (2011)
  • SCARBOROUGH: The Allstons of Chicora Wood (2011)
  • John Mackie: The Man and the Memory
  • The Battle of Drury's Bluff
  • The Week Ahead: May14th-May 20th
  • Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
  • The "Light Guard"
  • LAUSE: A Secret Society History of the Civil War (2011)
  • The Battle of McDowell
  • ...And They're Off..
  • Battle of Williamsburg
  • The Battle of Yorktown
  • The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"
  • MILLER: John Bell Hood (2010)
  • McKnight: CONFEDERATE OUTLAW (2011)
  • Revising, Refreshing, Evolving Battlefield Interpretation
• April 2012
  • The Dying Confederate's Last Words
  • Week in Review: April 22nd-27th
  • Bowling with Beauregard
  • Was Confederate Conscription an Instrument of Social Justice?
  • Introducing "Iron Men Afloat" - A New Series on the Civil War Navy
  • The Surrender of New Orleans Part 2: The Machines and Technology
  • The Surrender of New Orleans Part 1: The Men and The Skirmish
  • FOLLETT, FONER, JOHNSON (eds.): Slavery's Ghost (2011)
  • LOEWEN & SEBESTA (eds.): The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (2010)
  • The Week in Review: April 16th-20th
  • DELBLANCO: The Abolitionist Imagination (2012)
  • BARNHART: Albert Taylor Bledsoe (2011)
  • The Week Ahead: April 16th-April 22nd
  • The Start of Confederate Conscription
  • Did a C.S.S. Alabama Veteran Die in the Titanic Disaster?
  • The Week in Review: April 9th-13th Part 2
  • The Week in Review: April 9th-13th
  • Voice from the Past: "Another Bloodless Victory"
  • The Fall of Fort Pulaski
  • LOWRY: Drinking Patterns in the Civil War (2011)
  • Island No. 10
  • Voice from the Past: "Those Savage Yells, And The Sight of Thousands of Racing Figures Coming Towards Them"
  • Voice from the Past: "Victory is Sufficiently Complete...Victory is Lost"
  • The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
  • Voice from the Past: "Terrible Tales of the Scenes in Corinth"
  • The Battle of Shiloh
  • GALLMAN (ed.): A Tour of Reconstruction (2011)
  • STOKER: The Grand Design (2010)
  • Three Hundred Thousand More
• March 2012
  • Song of a Southern Prisoner to the Ladies of Baltimore
  • The Battle of Glorieta Pass
  • INSCOE (ed.): The Civil War in Georgia
  • Then and Now: Pope's Canal to New Madrid
  • Song of the Southern Women
  • The Week Ahead: March 26th-April 1st
  • Women's Work
  • A Slave and A Spy
  • The First Battle of Kernstown
  • "I will not attempt to hamper you with any minute instructions."
  • FULTON: The Reconstruction of Mark Twain (2010)
  • The Infamous "Woman Order" of Occupied New Orleans
  • Southern Belle or Female Rebel?
  • The Week Ahead: March 19th-25th
  • Patriotic Mail
  • The Wild Rose of the South
  • The Monitor, The Merrimack, and Me
  • How I tried and failed to escape the Civil War
  • A Lady and A Diary from Dixie
  • The Battle of New Bern
  • HARRIS: Lincoln and the Border States (2011)
  • HIRSCH & VAN HAFTEN: Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason (2010)
  • The Week Ahead: March 12th-18th
  • The Women in Black
  • The Week in Review: March 5th-9th
  • Voice from the Past: "It revolutionized the navies of the world"
  • Voice from the Past: "In the Monitor Turret"
  • The Rebel Lady's Boudoir
  • Voice from the Past: "How These Powerful Machines Are To Be Stopped Is A Problem I Can Not Solve"
  • The Women Who Went to the Field
  • Voice from the Past: "Great God What a Scene is Presented"
  • Do You Know These Men?
  • The Battle of Hampton Roads
  • Voice from the Past: "Nothing to Remind me of The Treacherous Days in March of '62"
  • LUBRECHT: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War (2011)
  • The Battle of Pea Ridge
  • MAGNESS & PAGE: Colonization After Emancipation (2011)
  • The Girl Soldiers of Nancy Harts Militia
  • The Week Ahead: March 5th-11th
  • A Poetic Tribute to Civil War Women
  • "One Side of the War is Theirs" - The U.S. Sanitary Commission
  • Honoring Civil War Women for Women's History Month
• February 2012
  • WITTENBERG: Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
  • Mustering Out Continued...General Orders No. 1
  • Mustered Out...The U.S. Colored Troops
  • Weird Essay Winner
  • The Week Ahead: February 27th-March 4th
  • Recruiting Black Soldiers - The Fight for Equal Rights
  • A Request from the 36 U.S. Colored Regiment
  • Black Soldiers and the Bloody Battle of Milliken's Bend
  • MARTEN (ed.): Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (2012)
  • Quarters for African American Soldiers
  • BLIGHT: American Oracle (2011)
  • Special Field Orders No. 15
  • Rest in Peace Willie Lincoln
  • Voice from the Past: "It Pleased Me Much More Than One Of Those Sentimental Things"
  • After the Battle
  • Voice from the Past: "Ask Us to Marry Him"
  • Voice from the Past: "Absolute Naval Supremacy"
  • Voice from the Past: "My Valentine to the Best Woman in the World"
  • FARMER-KAISER: Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau (2010)
  • DAVIS & ROBERTSON (eds.): Virginia at War, 1865
  • Voice from the Past: Sending Valentines
  • Voice from the Past: "A Desperate Fight at Fort Donelson"
  • Voice from the Past: "To Be Your Valentine"
  • From The Struggle of Slavery to the Struggle for Liberty
  • Voice from the Past: "The Startling Intelligence from Fort Donelson"
  • Voice from the Past: "St. Valentine's Day, I believe"
  • Voice from the Past: "Great Victories...At Such a Price of Blood"
  • Happy 203rd Birthday Abraham Lincoln
  • Voice from the Past: "Such Astounding Events"
  • The Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Fort Donelson
  • Black Soldiers and Lady Liberty
  • Roanoke Island...150 Years Ago
  • ABRUZZO: Polemical Pain (2011)
  • MARSHALL: Creating a Confederate Kentucky (2010)
  • The Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Roanoke Island
  • Voice from the Past: "The Right to Citizenship"
  • Camp Life for African American Regiments
  • Voice from the Past: "We Had Held Out for Over Two"
  • Aboard a Gun Deck During the Battle of Fort Henry
  • Voice from the Past: "The 6th Dawned Mild and Cheering"
  • The Battle of Fort Henry Sesquicentennial
  • The Week Ahead: February 6th-12th
  • Honoring the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry Band
  • Voice from the Past: Rallying with the Hearts of Lions
  • Preparing to See the Elephant
  • Honoring African American Veterans for Black History Month
  • WILSON: The Business of Civil War (2010)
• January 2012
  • Inboard the USS Monitor
  • The Launching of a Legend...the USS Monitor
  • The Mighty Mississippi
  • GINGRICH (et al): The Battle of the Crater: A Novel
  • What Robert E. Lee Didn’t Do After Appomattox
  • Prisoners from the Front
  • Voice from the Past: "A Terrible Struggle if it Comes to War."
  • BROWN (ed.): Remixing the Civil War
  • The Feminine Art of Inspiring Male Courage
  • Remembering Race and Reunion: Ten Years Later
  • The Week in Review: January 9th-13th
  • Looking Back...Just Fifty Years
  • DEMPSEY: Michigan and the Civil War (2011)
  • RABLE: God's Almost Chosen Peoples (2010)
  • KNIGHT: Confederate Invention (2011)
  • SMITH: The Enemy Within (2011)
  • 2011: A Year in Review
  • The Week Ahead: January 10th-15th
  • The Skating Season
  • A Soldier's Forty Winks
  • Voice from the Past: "The Cheer of the Glad New Year"
  • GAUGHAN: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2011)
  • The Angry Politics of Confederate Heritage
  • Voice from the Past: "A Dull Day"
  • Voice from the Past: "A Great Day of Sport to Usher in the New Year"
• December 2011
  • The Great Fair
  • MAURO: A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia (2009)
  • Voice from the Past: "Not peace, but a sword"
  • The Funeral of a "Gentleman Cow"
  • Voice from the Past: Dressed All the Wards with Festoons and Garlands
  • GEIGER: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War (2010)
  • PETERSEN: Quantrill at Lawrence (2011)
  • Voices from the Past: The Battle of Dranesville
  • Voice from the Past: A Pleasant Christmas
  • The Week in Review - December 12th-16th
  • Voice from the Past: A Loud Rap on the Door
  • WACHTELL: War No More (2010)
  • The Week Ahead: December 13th-18th
  • Voice From the Past: "There Was Death Only" — The Battle of Fredericksburg
  • Voice from the Past: A Christmas Bundle
  • Voice from the Past: The Hardest Calamities to Bear
  • THOMPSON (ed.): Tejanos in Gray
  • Image of the Day: Hope That Thing Isn't Loaded!
  • The Week Ahead: December 5th - 11th
  • Voices from the Past - Christmasday!
  • Voice from the Past: 1861
• November 2011
  • MCGINTY: The Body of John Merryman (2011)
  • URAL (ed.): Civil War Citizens (2010)
  • A Second Helping of Civil War Thanksgiving
  • Celebration or Riot?
  • Voice from the Past: "The Best Man and the Best General"
  • The Week Ahead: November 28th - December 4th
  • Voice from the Past - Thanksgiving is Over
  • Voice from the Past - Thankfully Keeping Thanksgiving Day
  • Voice from the Past - "Fleshing our teeth in a secesh gobbler..."
  • HARROLD: Border War (2010)
  • Voice from the Past - A Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
  • Voice from the Past - Thanksgiving Sensations
  • Voice from the Past - The Customs of Our Puritan Fathers
  • Week in Review – November 14th – 18th
  • Voice from the Past - "Am afloat, adrift"
  • MORSMAN: The Big House After Slavery (2010)
  • "Soldiers of Fortune, Make Us Your Game!"
  • A Civil War Cattle Drive
  • The Week Ahead: November 14th-20th
  • Voices from the Past - The Integrity of the Union
  • Honoring our Veterans...Then & Now
  • Happy Birthday Marines!
  • Who Will Be Worthy of Memorialization?
  • COFFMAN: Going Back the Way They Came (2011) & MARTIN: I Will Give Them One More Shot (2011)
  • The Week Ahead: November 7th - 13th
  • A Regiment of Inventors
  • Voices from the Past: "Sagacious Military Conjecture"
  • The Confederate Perspective: "Port Royal...has been taken by the enemy's fleet"
  • Voices from the Past: "The Glorious News from Port Royal"
  • Voices from the Past: "A Slow Affair"
  • Voices from the Past: "The Gratifying Duty"
  • Week in Review: October 31st-November 4th
  • Image of the Day: The Dogs of War
  • Sarah Morgan's Arrival in Yankee-Occupied New Orleans
  • MARTIN: General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. (2011)
  • The Week Ahead: Nov 1st-6th
• October 2011
  • Voices from the Past - Out of That Silence Rose New Sounds More Appalling Still
  • Voices From the Past: "I am truly thankful for the institution of ghosts..."
  • "They See a Ghost or Something."
  • Mrs. ("Beast") Butler's Scary Dream
  • Week in Review – October 23rd – 28th
  • Are You Ready for Some (Civil War) Football?
  • Teaching Slavery as the Cause of the Civil War
  • THOMAS: The Iron Way (2011)
  • GLATTHAAR: Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia (2011)
  • Respect My Heritage; You Can Stick Yours
  • The Week Ahead: October 24th – October 30th
  • Voices From the Past: "An Inferior Force"
  • Week in Review: October 17th-21st
  • Ball's Bluff Remembered
  • Progress and Change and Preservation
  • BYNUM: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010)
  • WOOD: Near Andersonville (2010)
  • "Coal for the Furnaces is as important as Gunpowder for the Guns"
  • Southward Bound
  • The Week Ahead...October 17th - 23rd
  • Week in Review: October 9th-16th
  • Bolting On the Civil War Navy
  • MARTEN: Sing Not War (2011)
  • MCCURRY: Confederate Reckoning (2010)
  • D. W. Griffith’s Other Civil War Movie
  • The Week Ahead…Civil War Events for October 10th-16th
  • Voices from the Past: A "Plucky" Young Soldier
  • Week in Review: October 3rd – 9th, 2011
  • BERRY (ed.): Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (2011)
  • "It made us an 'is'."
  • Weekly Roundup: October 4-9, 2011
  • Week in Review: September 25th - October 2nd
• September 2011
  • A War of Words
  • GOODHEART: 1861: The Civil War Awakening (2011)
  • GALLAGHER: The Union War (2011)
  • Texas SCV Calls for a New Strategy
  • Week in Review: September 18-24, 2011
  • These Sacred Fields: Union Commemorations at Gettysburg
  • We Cannot Know Their Minds
  • Welcome to The Front Line!
  • A few words on The Bookshelf
  • BERTERA & CRAWFORD: The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War (2010)
  • WARSCHAUER: Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival (2011)