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Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Information is power: Civil War edition

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Susan Schulten has a typically awesome piece up in the New York Times about the use of the telegraph during the Civil War. Being able to c...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Ulysses S. Grant: Bad for the Jews

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I must admit I was not aware of General Order 11 , which General Ulysses Grant issued in 1862: The Jews, as a class violating every regula...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Is West Virginia legally a state?

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Susan Schulten has a great post up about the birth of West Virginia (a.k.a. Kanawha) during the Civil War. But one thing I remain a bit fuz...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Why does no one write about the Civil War like this today?

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From a Denver Post front page editorial , April 24, 1861: The full particulars of the taking of Fort Sumpter by the Charleston traitors, t...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Takin' care of business, Linc style

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More by the artist here .
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Gold, slavery, and Colorado

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Susan Schulten has another fascinating post up at the NYT 's Civil War site. This one is about the interrelatedness of the slavery cris...
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I am a political scientist who specializes in state politics and political parties.
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