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Manassas Landscape Restoration Projects
The Park Service has posted informative signs at both Brawner Farm and on Matthews Hill detailing the ongoing landscape restoration projects. Although some historical details are included on the sign… more »
To the Sound of the Guns
The lost world
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snehreal wrote 13 hours ago: Cesar, Cleopatra, Alexander the great, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo are just a … more »
Fort Foote
caswain01 wrote 2 days ago: Finally got around to a belated trip report and marker entries for Fort Foote, Maryland. I visited t … more »
Manassas Landscape Restoration Projects
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caswain01 wrote 2 days ago: The Park Service has posted informative signs at both Brawner Farm and on Matthews Hill detailing th … more »
The Known World by Edward P Jones
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marygm wrote 3 days ago: The Known World opens in the years before the American Civil War with the death of Henry Townsend, … more »
And so...The American Civil War
Rene Tyree wrote 3 days ago: We have arrived in “Studies in U.S. Military History” (see course information here) at t … more »
Buckland Mills
caswain01 wrote 4 days ago: This event must have slipped under my radar: The Battle of Buckland Mills Presentation, Monday May … more »
Brawner Farm, Manassas
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caswain01 wrote 4 days ago: With the majority of the markers related to Antietam now at least in the database, I turned today to … more »
Additional Page - "the milestones"
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Rene Tyree wrote 5 days ago: I’m adding another new page called “the milestones” available here or on the navba … more »
Fabian Strategy and the American Civil War
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Rene Tyree wrote 6 days ago: One of the concepts Millett and Maslowski mention in their book For the Common Defense: A Military … more »
Sobering Numbers
Rene Tyree wrote 1 week ago: As I was finishing up my reading on the American Revolution this evening, I learned the following re … more »
Sultana Thoughts
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caswain01 wrote 1 week ago: I’m two days late for posting, but Sunday was the anniversary of the Sultana tragedy. While … more »
Killer Book
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mendicus wrote 1 week ago: I have never been an American Civil War buff. I’ve never been able to keep Vicksburg and Frederi … more »
April's Cruelties: The Steamboat Sultana Disaster
stitcher5407 wrote 1 week ago: Everyone knows about the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in which 1,517 lost their lives. … more »
The Wilderness - Gordon Flank Attack Trail
caswain01 wrote 1 week ago: Started turning back to some pre-Antietam project notes and site trips today. My marker entries and … more »
Looking forward... and the thought of analyzing Southern Loyalist Claims
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cenantua wrote 2 weeks ago: It might seem like I have laid aside my focus on Civil War “memory,” but I’ve actu … more »
Trail Day at Monocacy
caswain01 wrote 2 weeks ago: Yesterday was a great hiking day. Moderate temperatures. Fair winds. And just enough cloud cover … more »
Howe Wins 2008 Pulitizer Prize for History
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Rene Tyree wrote 2 weeks ago: Daniel Walker Howe’s (right) 2007 book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, … more »
When saying "I am studying Web design" just isn't enough
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cenantua wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s been quite a while since I posted on anything relating directly to digital history, but … more »
The Shenandoah Valley's Delegates to the 1861 Virginia Secession Convention
cenantua wrote 3 weeks ago: I realized that I should have included this with my earlier posts about the vote for secession in th … more »
