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Sharpsburg claims one of the original Memorial Day parades in the United States. Begun soon after the war as Decoration Day, the celebration was to honor the soldiers of the Civil War … Later … the parade drew thousands of… continue reading
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Go Chargers
I’m sorry to say I’d never heard of Hillsdale College until last week. My loss. In south-central Michigan, Hillsdale was a hotbed of liberal thought, abolitionism, and Unionist sentiment in mid-19th Century America. Because of its dedication to the principle… continue reading
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Problems in Digital History (Intro)
If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work –R. W. Hamming William Turkel has taken Dr Dick Hamming’s challenge*, elegantly condensed by Paul Graham as What’s the best thing you could be working… continue reading
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Fishel: Secret War for the Union
As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been reading Edwin C. Fishel’s The Secret War for the Union : The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War (Houghton Mifflin, 1996). In particular, I was hoping to gain some… continue reading
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Opening new territory to exploration
For some time now, maybe the last year or two, I’ve felt too closely focused on the events of one day, 17th September 1862. Not that there isn’t a lifetime’s work yet to be done, or that I’ve done much… continue reading
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TV feeds the Web
I was interested to see a large spike in the number of visitors to AotW between about 6 and 9pm eastern time yesterday. Not too surprising, I guess. This coincides roughly with the History Channel Antietam film airing. We typically… continue reading
