Foregrounding the body of the soldier as a medium of sensory experience and as a body at risk, their work recalls the long history of war photography, painting, and film, dramatizing the importance of the figure of the body in narratives of war, and the power of somatic imagery to shape...
Wargame developers love making American Civil War games, drawing on the war’s romantic notions of ‘brother against brother’ and the development of warfare from line battles to quasi-trench warfare slug-fests. Alongside the two World Wars, Napoleon’s conquests and the grand imperial conflicts ...
General George Meade’s horse Old Baldy lived a fascinating life and has continued in death to elicit Americans’ Civil War passions. During the Civil War, Old Baldy survived an amazing number of injuries (14 in total); “the horse was shot in the nose at First Bull Run, the leg at Se...
The ferocity and brutality of a conflict waged between neighbors and families precluded the possibility of an easy transition into a post-war peace. Murder, mutilation, looting and arson were not quickly forgotten crimes and there was little chance they could be considered as simply the fortunes o...
The Black prophetic, liberationist, abolitionist Christian tradition is the single most significant resistance movement ever to develop in the U.S. Enslaved people in the 18th and 19th centuries largely embraced the faith of their enslavers, but then many profoundly reworked it — drawing on...
Here’s an easy American contra dance of the Civil War era found in three Boston sources. Two are manuals by Elias Howe:Howe's Complete Ballroom Handbook(Boston, 1858), andAmerican Dancing Master and Ball-Room Prompter(Boston, 1862); the third is Professor L.H. Elmwell’sPrompter’s Pock...
Description From the opening shots of at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Court House, Civil War Battle Maps allows you to explore the major events and conflicts of the American Civil War. Drawing upon the American Battlefield Trust’s extensive collection of one-of-a-kind ba...
Drawing purge is a great and seamless add-on. It's quick, simple and easy to understand. For the most part it does the job great. However, I am having issues with purging plot styles, configurations, some shape files and standards that aren't going away when I open a batch of files...
‘We have big ideas, but only small words’: The post-war geographies of civil society and community in Karen State 2023, Geoforum Citation Excerpt : For one, scholars have shown that rather than pluralising the public sphere, donors have created new hierarchies by favouring professionalised or...
In 1988 I wrote a substantial essay laying out my views about abortion, and describing how they had evolved over time. The piece also considered the increasing parallels, both rhetorical and political, between this struggle and the Civil War. Thirty-plus