As part of The Society of Civil War Historians festivities in Baltimore, the Society awarded J. Matthew Ward the Anne J. Bailey Dissertation Prize. Read more about it here! scwh.memberclicks.net/anne-j-bailey-…

A man was sitting alone, on a bench in a park, singing Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer by himself. By the end, the entire park joined along to sing with him.

fighting the good fight washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01…

Ron Desantis seems to think his recent behavior will help him in 2024. Is he that dumb or are we really in that much trouble?

Twitter has taken the folks who can't define CRT and added them to the folks who can't define Gender Studies

Nice editorial How has Florida fallen so low?

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Sydney Knipp, 16, tiptoed to the stage’s edge and peered around the black curtain at the nearly 1,500 people waiting for “Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood,” to start. It was the largest audience she had ever seen. wapo.st/3q9OJTu

Where is Braxton Bragg on the lists of items Desantis does not understand but he thinks he does?

"Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia" by Allison Dorothy Fredette "will appeal widely to Civil War era historians interested in the conflict’s impact on marriages," writes Jonathan Noyalas. Read more here: tinyurl.com/yhw2y5cx #CivilWar #BookReview

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Congratulations to friend and educator James Broomall for this well deserved nomination!

New, glowing reviews of "THE CACOPHONY OF POLITICS: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War" by J. Matthew Gallman "Sparkles in its depiction of the nineteenth-century North as 'a world thick with politics' and its expansive view of who and what was political."-CWHJournal

just in my mailbox from UNC amazon.com/Citizens-Stole… and amazon.com/War-That-Made-…

THIS IS AWESOME! John Legend, who is a native of Springfield, Ohio asks his neighbors to love their Haitian neighbors: “They are hardworking, they're ambitious, they commit less crime than native born Americans.” He also argues it’s the Christian thing to do: “How about we

Even better: the US Army remade the laws of war for the modern world in reaction to the Confederacy's white supremacist decision to execute Black soldiers rather than treat them as prisoners of war. Seriously. That was the reason.