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Hello, I am alive and still kicking though my blogging has not reflected that as I have been drowning and swimming these past few weeks of my first foray as an A.P. U.S. history teacher. Anyway, I have been reading … Continue reading →

To Petersburg with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of Levi Bird Duff, 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers is an excellent collection of letters that is worth the purchase price. From 1861 to 1864 Levi Bird Duff offers an … Continue reading →

In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat, by Earl J. Hess Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (June 22, 2009) ISBN-10: 0807832820 ISBN-13: 978-0807832820 Earl J. Hess has released three books centering on … Continue reading →

Thank you to Tattered Fabric for listing this site as a “100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies“… anything I can do to feed your need… LOL.

O.K., a simple google search and one can find that he was a Boston resident, a lawyer in fact, and with a little more searching he was a friend of John Adams. He also wrote a pamphlet, “The sentiments of … Continue reading →

Found this fascinating data on one of my favorite blogs Vast Public Indifference and I am simply going to post this and you can visit the post and make comments if you wish; I’m not sure what to think.

The “Cyclorama” was a very popular late 1800s attraction that gave visitors a kind of “three dimensional” view of landscapes usually in the form of famous battles. Made of large oil-painted canvases people could view the large paintings and sometimes … Continue reading →

I have not been diligent in my postings as I have been away at an A.P. United States history conference. This has been a great experience and has given me a lot to think about and also use in my … Continue reading →

Though historians have pretty much closed the door on the Civil War being a “total” war, there are some new books that have exposed some of the more brutal and “savage” aspects of the war. Daniel E. Sutherland’s A Savage … Continue reading →

This should send a chill down your spin while watching: Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing of May 5, 2009 Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by … Continue reading →