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Weekly Whitman: “O Captain! My Captain”
Once one of the most popular poems in America, schoolchildren were required to memorize “O Captain! My Captain” at least into the 1950s. When Walt Whitman wrote this poem, it was received quite well...
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ECW Weekender: Closing Devil’s Den and Little Round Top
Devil’s Den from Little Round Top. Photo by Kristopher D. White. Time is running out for you to visit two of the most awe-inspiring sites at Gettysburg-Devil’s Den and Little Round Top. The National...
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Being Wide Awake Today is Woke
Amazing, isn’t it, how everything old is new again? The worst insult or highest compliment in use today is probably some version of the word “woke.” Depending on which side one lands politically, it...
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A Tale of Two Tombstones
Searcy’s modern grave marker, claiming him as a Confederate soldier. ECW welcomes guest author Kevin C. Donovan During a recent first-time visit to Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, I found a...
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Micaela Almonester, Andrew Jackson, and Myths
History will always be reinterpreted. Sometimes the change comes from new information being discovered or more commonly, rediscovered. Yet, there is another deeper reason. Every age needs new myths and...
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“a version of the truth:” Memory and Death Cab for Cutie
While driving, I heard a new song from indie/alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie. You may be familiar with them from their older work, but what caught my ear was their recently released “Pepper”...
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Civil War Surprises—Confederate Flashman: The Adventures of Henry R. H....
Editor’s note: This blog post is part of a series. Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. ‘From Battlefield to Boarding House’ While MacIver gained notoriety from Davis’s publications, he didn’t...
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The Lions of Antietam and Verdun
Paul Landowski’s ‘France,’ with his ‘Les Fantomes’ in the background. On the Butte Chalmont near Oulchy-le-Château in the Aisne, commemorating the French troops of the Second Battle of the Marne....
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ECW Podcast: James Longstreet and Confederate Cancel Culture
The latest edition of the Emerging Civil War Podcast dropped this week. The latest episode is inspired by a thought-provoking post several weeks ago at the Substack site Civil War Memory. Confederate...
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Book Review: In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch,...
In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863. By Allen R. Thompson. New York: Knox Press, 2023....
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