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American Civil War Gaming & Reading
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Focusing on new American Civil War wargames, scenarios, mods, playtesting, game & book publishers, current books being read, research, and anything else in the life of a Civil War buff.
Recent Posts
A Response to Hallmarks of the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War, Part 2
Editor’s Note: This is a two part post which will appear on Thursday and Friday. Read Part 1 if you missed it. I read Jim Durney’s recent TOCWOC post, Hallmarks of the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War, with interest. ...
November 2009 Civil War Book Notes
Those that can’t write, Review! November 2009 James Durney *********************************************************** New Releases A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers should be in the stores ...
A Threat to Nashville’s Ft. Negley Park
German-Americans in the Civil War expert Joseph R. Reinhart recently wrote to us about a threat to Nashville’s Fort Negley Park. Fort Negley’s museum specialist Krista Castillo is in danger of losing her job, and the park would see a re...
The Civil War 145 Years Ago: November 1864
145 Years Ago November 1864 The biggest news is the election of Lincoln & Johnson on the eighth. The popular vote was almost 500,000 higher for Lincoln, about one out of eight votes, but the Electoral College cast 212 votes for Lincoln and 21...
Hallmarks of the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War
Hallmarks of the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War: 1) The insistence that the North is good and the South bad can be a warning sign, just as an insistence that the South was good and the North bad is a warning sign of Lost Cause Myt...
Thirty Years War
I’m going a bit afield here to look at a war most people have never heard of—the Thirty Years War. Bear with me, because I’m going to tie it in with the Civil War. Right now I’m working on reviews of several books dealing with guerilla warfar...
