Posted on March 8, 2008 by cenantua
I have to admit, this was new to me. I had never heard of virtual booksignings until I first saw a listing for such a thing on Civil War Interactive. I followed the link from CWI to VirtualBookSigning.net and was amazed. According to the website
Virtual Book Signing™ provides the excitement of attending a booksigning, without [...]
Filed under: Digital History | Tagged: Civil War Interactive, hypertext, virtual booksigning | No Comments »
Posted on March 8, 2008 by cenantua
I’ve written about how I am puzzled over the way that those with no familial connections whatsoever have found ”sympathetic connections” with one side or another in the Civil War. I’ve also written about how a person, descended from a Union soldier, had been left with a legacy of forgotten family participation in the war. However, today, I [...]
Filed under: Civil War Memory - General, Reflections on "personal memory" of the Civil War | Tagged: Andersonville, Civil War memory, Cole's Cavalry, Confederate heritage, Cyrus S. Moore, G.A.R., Hamilton Alexander Moore, James Draper Moore, Joseph Lake McKinney, Laurel Brigade, Loudoun Heights, personal Civil War memory, SCV, Sons of Union Veterans, Stonewall Brigade, SUVCW, Union ancestor, Union ancestry | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 8, 2008 by cenantua
I’ve been enjoying Kevin Levine’s blogging about Black Confederates lately and I particularly enjoyed his post Black Confederates: The Standard Formula.
I don’t really think much of the position that some in the SCV and neo-Confederates (yes, I recognize a difference between the two, though at times, people from the two sets are one-in-the-same under the same neo-Confederate ideology) have taken regarding [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: Black Confederates, Confederacy, free blacks, neo-Confederates, SCV, slaves, Spotsylvania Court House, Tenth Virginia Infantry, United States Colored Troops | 8 Comments »
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