Southern Character
Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride, eds. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3690-8. The fifteen essays in this collection stem from a conference organized in 2005 in...
Book Review
“Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War,” Tony Horwitz. Picador, Henry Holt & Co. 365 pages. $18. Many Southerners have denied that the Civil War was fought over slavery, arguing that the war was really in defense of...
News from Around the South 12/10-12/17
Georgia: Teen’s Diary Provides Perspective on Civil War From atop Macon’s College Street, a disabled teen seemed to have little to look forward to except satisfying his voracious hunger for news of the Civil War. More than 150 years later, the world can now view...
Civil War Journalism
New technologies and a growing demand for information during the US Civil War forever changed the nation’s press, according to a book by journalism professor Ford Risley. It was absolutely an important moment in the history of the press,” says Penn State’s Risley....Obiter Dicta
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses Read More
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