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I made a very quick trip out to Asheville before school starts--been hearing a bunch about the place and, of course, it was everything I...

This evening I want to read Jefferson Davis' July 1852 address to the Phi Sigma and Hermean Societies of the University of Mississippi...

While Al has been keeping GreeneSpace alive, for which I'm very grateful, I've been back at work on my essay on Thomas Ruffin and St...

Congratulations to the folks with the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project for securing Gov. Easley's support in their work to esta...

On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered. The nightmare of the civil war was officially ended; the Union would be one again. Why, then...

Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite of the University of Virginia show in painstaking detail how a photograph of a group of black Civil War so...

At the end of a fine tribute to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , who died on February 28, New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus throws...

Today is the 144th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation . New Year's Day--not a hard connection to make. How come we don't r...

We learn via Kevin Levin's Civil War Memory blog that there's a biography of Albion Tourgée just out from Oxford. It's about t...

Congratulations to high school history teacher Kevin Levin, whose Civil War Memory site celebrated its first blogiversary yesterday. How lu...

If every American high school student had a history teacher like Kevin Levin, keeper of Civil War Memory , the world would be a better place...