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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Press Release Civil War Trust to Preserve Battle of Cool Spring land
Press Release Civil War Trust to Preserve Battle of Cool Spring land
For Immediate Release
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013
For more information, contact:
Mary Koik, Civil War Trust, (202) 367-1861 x7231
Emily Burner, Shenandoah University, (540) 545-7334
MEDIA ADVISORY:
VIRGINIA OFFICIALS JOIN CIVIL WAR TRUST AND SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY FOR BATTLEFIELD PRESERVATION ANNOUNCEMENT
(Bluemont, Va.) – On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, officials from the Civil War Trust, Shenandoah University and the Commonwealth of Virginia will gather in Clarke County to announce a public-private partnership to preserve historic landscapes associated with the July 1864 Battle of Cool Spring.
The news conference will be held at the former Virginia National Golf Course, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Joining Civil War Trust President James Lighthizer and Shenandoah University President Tracy Fitzsimmons at the news conference will be Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech, Virginia Director of Historic Resources Kathleen Kilpatrick, Clarke County Board of Supervisors Chairman Michael Hobert and other preservation and conservation advocates.
Following the news conference, guests will have an opportunity to learn about the Battle of Cool Spring and the unique ecological and environmental properties of the newly preserved land. Light refreshments will be provided inside the clubhouse. In the event of inclement weather, the news conference will be held indoors.
WHAT: News conference announcing preservation efforts in Clarke County
WHO: Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech, Virginia Director of Historic Resources Kathleen Kilpatrick, Clarke County Board of Supervisors Chairman Michael Hobert, Civil War Trust and Shenandoah University officials
WHEN: April 23, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. ET
WHERE: Former Virginia National Golf Course, 1400 Parker Lane, Bluemont, VA 20135
The Civil War Trust is the largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization in the United States. Its goal is to preserve our nation’s endangered Civil War sites and to promote appreciation of these hallowed grounds through education and heritage tourism. To date, the Trust has preserved more than 35,000 acres of battlefield land in 20 states. Learn more at www.civilwar.org, the home of the Civil War sesquicentennial.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Press Release A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
Press Release A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
Justin Carisio
When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware’s 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from Quaker families came forward to fight for the Union. Deeply patriotic and strongly opposed to slavery, they served with distinction in some of the later campaigns of the Civil War, from Cold Harbor through Appomattox. Among them was Henry Gawthrop. Commissioned a first lieutenant in Company F, he saw action during the Siege of Petersburg and at the Battle of Five Forks. Fifty years after the war, he drew on his diary and letters from the war years to create a unique memoir that is among the most comprehensive and detailed of any Delaware Civil War veteran. This is his story.
Justin Carisio, of Wilmington, Delaware, is the company historian at DuPont, where he has worked as an executive speech writer for more than 30 years. He is a volunteer at Antietam National Battlefield and holds degrees from La Salle University and the Johns Hopkins University.
ISBN: 978-1-60949-751-4 • Paperback • 160 pages • $19.99 • October 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple’s I-bookstore, Google’s E-bookstore, & Overdrive.
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Video Review PBS American Experience Death and the Civil War
The PBS show American Experience has been broadcasting Death and the Civil War over the last week. The good people there were kind enough to send along a DVD review copy that I have been able to watch. Overall I was quite impressed.
Taking its inspiration from Drew Gilpin Fausts excellent book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
this is a show that anybody interested in the Civil War should take the two hours needed to watch. While not breaking any new academic ground viewers can see photos of and hear the horror of the war. Despite early hopes this was not to be a quick event. With over 700,000 dead nearly every family in the country was affected. Narration is broken up several ways. The main narrator is Oliver Platt and his voice lends a solemnity to the show befitting the subject. Letter excerpts are read by several others including Amy Madigan. Every documentary like this will have its share of "talking heads" and this one is no exception. Dr. Faust of course plays a main role. Others, such as George Will, J. David Hacker, and Vincent Brown may or may not be known by viewers. I personally found the contribution by David Blight a highlight. I came to know of him after downloading a course of his from the Apple University site and find him to be an engaging speaker. I have not read any of his books so I can say what I feel about those however. Another surprisingly interesting speaker was Thomas Lynch. Lynch is an undertaker by trade but also an author of note. You can read an interesting, but older, interview with him here.
The video portion of the program is really quite haunting. The photos used are a nice mix of well known and those I have not seen before. The lighting of the whole program is done in such a manner as to constantly remind the viewer of the seriousness of the subject. The background music for the program should be payed attention to. It helps set the mood but at no point is it overwhelming. I was not familiar with the name Brian Keane until searching out the music credits here. He is however quite well known and has scored numerous films and documentaries and has won multiple major awards.
Overall the program is broken into six major subjects including: dying, burying, naming, believing and doubting, accounting, and remembering. A major question that is asked by the program is if its citizens are expected to make the ultimate sacrifice (death) for the government what does the government owe to its citizens who make this sacrifice. At the time of the war neither government was able or ready to answer this. Out of the war however came improved medical care including the formation of an ambulance service, an improved ability and desire to remove soldiers remains from the field and to identify them thus giving families closure, and with the formation of national cemeteries soldiers and their families are able to give a proper burial to their brave men (and now women).
Again, while not breaking any new ground this is a show I can highly recommend. The images and subject are likely to stick with you for quite a while after watching this. Be sure to check your local PBS station for times or watch it online at your convenience.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Upcoming Post The Civil War in Color
Thanks go out to the good folks at Sterling Publishing for sending along a copy of their wonderful looking new book The Civil War in Color: A Photographic Reenactment of the War Between the States. The author John C. Guntzelman has taken photos from the Library of Congress and as he
says "These photos are no longer just dusty old pictures, but rather have become very real moments in time from our collective past, frozen forever in color." Guntzelman has undertaken extensive research to try and make the colors as accurate as possible. He has really worked to get things such as uniform color, building colors appropriate to the era, hair and eye color of famous generals and many more details correct. While there is much to be said for the traditional Civil War era photos being in black and white this new book does look incredible at a first glance. With an introduction written by Bob Zeller, President of The Center for Civil War Photography this book looks like it has a lot of promise. I am looking forward to digging in!
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Press Release Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
Press Release Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
James B. Jones Jr.
Tennessee’s Civil War history is an oft-told narrative of famous battles, cunning campaigns and
Meet the author
Wednesday, July 31 at 7 p.m. {Book Launch} @ Belmont Mansion Museum |1700 Acklen Ave, Nashville
Saturday, August 17 @ Hastings | 1660 Memorial Blvd, Murfreesboro
Saturday, August 24 at 2-4 p.m. @ Vanderbilt U. B&N Bookstore | 2501 West End Ave Nashville
Tuesday, February 4 at 2:30 p.m. @ Metropolitan Archives (First Tuesday at the Archives Meeting)
James B. Jones Jr. is a public historian on the staff of the Tennessee Historical Commission/State Historic Preservation Office in Nashville. He has published many books and articles on many topics about Tennessee history, including but not limited to the Civil War. He serves also as the editor of the THC newsletter, the Courier. He earned a doctor of arts degree in history and historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University in 1983. He resides with his spouse in Murfreesboro.
ISBN: 978-1-60949-899-3 • Paperback • 128 pages • $19.99 • July 18, 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple’s I-bookstore, Google’s E-bookstore, & Overdrive.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Press Release American Indians and the Civil War
Press Release American Indians and the Civil War
American Indians Tell Their Untold
Civil War Stories After 150 Years
Civil War Stories After 150 Years
The National Park Service, American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education and Eastern National release the book American Indians and the Civil War
Albuquerque, New Mexico (June 3, 2013) –The National Park Service (NPS) made a landmark commitment to include American Indian voices in the 2011-2015 150th anniversary commemoration of America’s Civil War. To honor that commitment, NPS partnered with the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA), the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and publisher Eastern National to produce the cultural heritage interpretive book, American Indians and the Civil War (AICW) available this month.
A little known but crucial part of Civil War stories is that more than 20,000 American Indians fought on both sides of the conflict. Most thought their participation would guarantee their survival and protect their lands. Instead, federal Indian policy became more savage during the war, and when it was over, a reunited nation turned its vision to westward expansion, overrunning Indian lands and decimating Native populations.
“AICW is an important new tool for cultural heritage tourism. Our goal at AIANTA has always been to help Indian Country link its historical interpretations to landscape,” said Sammye Meadows, AIANTA Senior Public Lands Partnership Coordinator and AICW contributing author. “Because of instrumental partnerships with NPS, BIA, BIE and Eastern National, American Indians will now be referenced in American History teachings.”
Book authors include 11 Native American and non-Native American scholars from across the country, including Editor Robert K. Sutton, Daniel Wildcat and Elliot West.
Through a cooperative agreement between the BIA and AIANTA, AICW copies will be sent to tribal colleges and universities, Indian primary and secondary schools across America and tribal museums and cultural centers. For more information, please visit www.AIANTA.org.
The book will be available later this month at www.eParks.com and in select national parks across the country for $9.95.
About:
To learn more about the American Indians and the Civil War, visit www.Facebook.com/AmericanIndiansAndTheCivilWar.
To learn more about AIANTA, visit www.AIANTA.org.
To learn more about the Bureau of Indian Affairs, visit www.bia.gov.
To learn more about the Bureau of Indian Education, visit www.bie.gov.
To learn more about Eastern National, visit www.eParks.com.
To learn more about the National Park Service, visit www.nps.gov.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Press Release The History Press Releases Civil War Soldiers of Greater Cleveland
Press Release The History Press Releases Civil War Soldiers of Greater Cleveland
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
Civil War Soldiers of Greater Cleveland
Letters Home to Cuyahoga County
Dale Thomas
The Civil War interrupted the area around Cleveland, Ohio, in the middle of its great leap into prosperity, redirecting its men into military camps and its industrial strength into munitions and provisions. Dale Thomas roots his story in the letters that kept the ordinary soldiers from Cuyahoga County tethered to their families and friends on the home front, even as they moved from battlefield to battlefield, through sickness and captivity. For many, these letters were the only part of them to make it back—their final legacy to a community they had helped to build.
Dale Thomas graduated from Kent State University (BS in social studies and education) and Case Western Reserve University (MA in history). Before retiring, he taught social studies for thirty-one years at Bay High School in Bay Village, Ohio. In addition to serving as a judge for History Day at Case Western Reserve University, he has been an advisor for tours at the Western Reserve Historical Society and historian for the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable. Thomas is the archivist and vice-president for the Olmsted Historical Society and a member of the North Olmsted Landmarks Commission. He is the author of the books Images of America: North Olmsted and Then & Now: Olmsted. In 2012, The History Press published his third book, Lincoln’s Old Friends of Menard County, Illinois.
ISBN: 978.1.62619.088.7• Paperback • 144 pages • $19.99 • July 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple’s I-bookstore, Google’s E-bookstore, & Overdrive.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Press Release Smithsonian Civil War
Press Release Smithsonian Civil War
Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection
By the Smithsonian Institution; Edited by Neil Kagan; Foreword by Jon Meacham
The Smithsonian offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at its incomparable Civil War treasures in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. This stunning book features 150 entries commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Each entry tells a unique Civil War story illustrated by objects handpicked by Smithsonian curators and historians. Tens of thousands of objects in the national collection were evaluated; the objects that shined as the most valuable, significant, and interesting have been artfully arranged in the ultimate Civil War coffee-table gift book of the season.
The treasures range from famous historical icons—notably the original “Old Glory” flag and the hat Lincoln wore to Ford’s Theatre on the night he was assassinated—to rare, fragile, and seldom-seen artifacts selected from cabinets, store rooms, and locked vaults. The Smithsonian’s Civil War collection has never been showcased like this before, because many of these historical gems are brought to light for the very first time.
The entries cover the full range of this devastating conflict, from pre-war through the war and Reconstruction, and draw objects from twelve national museums and archives. The National Portrait Gallery provides rare early photographs of Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant. From the National Museum of American History comes a slave-ship manifest listing its human cargo as well as secret messages that had been hidden inside Lincoln’s gold watch for almost 150 years. The National Air and Space Museum contributes futuristic aircraft designs from the Civil War era. Objects as diverse as sculptures and posters, jewelry and military uniforms, and weaponry and battlefield objects complete this unique, panoramic view of the Civil War.
Smithsonian Civil War is authoritatively written by the Smithsonian curators responsible for preserving and interpreting priceless treasures from America’s past. The narratives are illustrated with more than 450 color photographs of the Civil War treasures from the national collection, including all-new photography of three-dimensional objects. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed historian Jon Meacham, Smithsonian Civil War is a must-have for history lovers and Civil War buffs alike. This is history as only the Smithsonian can tell it.
About the author:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is the largest museum complex in the world. Smithsonian Civil War features objects from 12 Smithsonian museums and research centers and text by 49 curators with expertise in a variety of fields. NEIL KAGAN specializes in producing innovative illustrated books. As the former publisher for Time-Life Books, he created numerous book series, including Voices of the Civil War, Our American Century, and What Life Was Like. He has edited Great Battles of the Civil War, Great Photographs of the Civil War, Concise History of the World, Eyewitness to the Civil War, Atlas of the Civil War, and The Untold Civil War.
About the book:Title: Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection
By Smithsonian Institution; edited by Neil Kagan; foreword by Jon Meacham.
On-Sale Date: 10/29/2013
Price: $40.00 / Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-1-58834-389-5
Smithsonian Books
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Press Release Arkansas Civil War Heritage
Press Release Arkansas Civil War Heritage
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
Arkansas Civil War Heritage
A Legacy of Honor
W. Stuart Towns
The American Civil War shaped the course of the country’s history and its national identity. This is no less true for the state of Arkansas. Throughout the Natural State, people have paid homage and remembrance to those who fought and what was fought for in memorial celebrations and rituals. The memory of the war has been kept alive by reunions and preservationists, continuing to shape the way the War Between the States affects Arkansas and its people. Historian W. Stuart Towns expertly tells the story of Arkansas’s Civil War heritage through its rituals of memorial, commemoration and celebration that continue today.
W. Stewart Towns, PhD, has spent more than forty years following his passion for Southern history. Towns attended the University of Arkansas on a track and cross-country scholarship, where he received his BA degree in 1961. He continued his education at the University of Florida, where he received his MA in 1962 and his PhD in 1972. He served as chair of the Communication Departments at the University of West Florida, Appalachian State University and Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Towns had a parallel second career in the U.S. Army. While on active duty, he earned a spot on the U.S. Modern Pentathlon team and competed in the 1964 Olympic Trials in modern pentathlon, fencing and the marathon. After completing his active-duty tour, he served the rest of his military career in the active army reserves in the civil affairs branch, mostly with the 361st CA Brigade in Pensacola, Florida. He became a member of the Consulting Faculty Program at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1973 and served in that role until 1996. Dr. Towns retired as a colonel in the active reserves in 1996.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Press Release The Reckoning Saga of a Civil War Blockade Runner
Press Release The Reckoning Saga of a Civil War Blockade Runner
Thanks to author Bob Larranaga for sending along a nicely signed copy of his new work of fiction The Reckoning: Saga of a civil war blockade runner. Recently published through the Createspace platform the book has received a couple of nice comments already and looks like it would be a book that anybody interested in adventure fiction would enjoy. "Ex-soldier Ed Canfield is haunted by what he did in the Mexican American War. When the Civil War erupts, he bars his son from joining the Confederate army. But an attack by a Union gunboat forces them deep into the Everglades where Yellow Fever strikes their refugee camp. In a race against time, Ed runs the Union blockade for the medicine needed to save the refugees. In his absence, renegade rebels take Eds love ones hostage. Saving them will test Eds soldiers heart to the core."
Mr. Larranaga has a website for his book that you may visit, just click here. The site is nicely done and includes biographical information, book club ideas, a contest, links, and more. Please take a minute to have a look.
For those who are Amazon Prime members you may borrow the book for free from the Amazon Kindle Lending Library.
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Press Release Prince Georges County and the Civil War
Press Release Prince Georges County and the Civil War
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
Prince George’s County & the Civil War
Life on the Border
Nathania A. Branch Miles & Monday M. Miles
Bordered by the Federal capital but separated from Virginia and the Confederacy only by the Potomac River, the citizens of Prince George’s County found themselves on the front lines of the Civil War. As Maryland’s largest slave-owning county, some—including members of the Bowie and Surratt families— joined the Confederacy. Many remained loyal to the Union, losing sons and property for the cause. Three forts in the county were dedicated to the capital’s defense: Fort Foote, Fort Washington and Fort Lincoln. This did not prevent Confederate general Jubal Early’s troops from invading in July 1864. The Rebel forces blew up rail lines in Beltsville and took the Rossborough Inn near the Maryland Agricultural College—now the University of Maryland, College Park—as their headquarters. Prince George’s County and the Civil War: Life on the Border charts the course of a community caught in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Monday M. Miles is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a bachelor’s degree in history. She also has a master’s degree from Trinity Washington University in nonprofit management/human resources management. She lives in Bowie, Maryland.
Nathania A. Branch Miles is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning. She is the coauthor of three books on the history of Prince George’s County and an active member of several genealogical, historical and community organizations. She lives in Hyattsville, Maryland.
ISBN: 978-1-60949-848-1 • Paperback • 128 pages • $19.99 • November 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the iBookstore, Kobo & OverDrive.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Press Release New Brunswick and the Civil War
Press Release New Brunswick and the Civil War
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
New Brunswick and the Civil War
The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion
Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi
At the beginning of the Civil War, New Brunswick was positioned at the transportation and manufacturing hub of New Jersey. Many of the city’s young men exchanged manufacturing equipment for rifles, and those whom they left behind witnessed the war through letters from their sons, brothers and husbands. Patriotism, a longing to earn more money and adventure lured these “Brunswick Boys”—close friends and coworkers—to enlist. Their recollections offer insights into everyday life in New Jersey during the war—New Brunswick’s factory system, education and medicine. These letters also reveal their struggles to survive amid battles and close encounters with death that so many soldiers faced, as well as their difficult transition back to civilian life. Local author Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi presents the fascinating stories of New Brunswick and the Civil War, gleaned from the letters of those who experienced it.
Meet-the-author
October 15 at 6:30 p.m. @ Roselle Park Library (404 Chestnut St, Roselle Park, NJ 07204)
October 27 at 2 p.m. @ Somerset Historical Society (9 Van Veghten Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08807)
October 21 at 7 p.m. @ New Brunswick Historical Society (58 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick NJ 08901)
Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi, a former journalist, is a history aficionado. Serving as a trustee of the Union County Historical Society, she currently chairs the county’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit and is the author of several pamphlets and calendars detailing the history of the region. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, she loves the rich history of the area and its people. She serves as the county clerk of Union County and is a former mayor of her hometown.
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