Rev stuff is very tired to me. CivWar stuff is compelling because I genuinely don't understand how we got to that point, given how intractably stupid most white people these days are. How did we get enough people willing to die to end slavery when today we won't even wear a facemask in a pandemic
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Rev stuff is very tired to me. CivWar stuff is compelling because I genuinely don't understand how we got to that point, given how intractably stupid most white people these days are. How did we get enough people willing to die to end slavery when today we won't even wear a facemask in a pandemic
Yeah, before you fantasize about CivWar 2 travel to a country that actually has that going on. When i was in the service I spent time in the Balkans and in the Sinai. I also did some hiking around Mali in the 90s - ever see a mock execution - its not a fun thing. You don't want any of that here.
September 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Yeah, before you fantasize about CivWar 2 travel to a country that actually has that going on. When i was in the service I spent time in the Balkans and in the Sinai. I also did some hiking around Mali in the 90s - ever see a mock execution - its not a fun thing. You don't want any of that here.
The CivWar Institute has announced the schedule for the 2025 conference, which will honor the life and legacy of its former director Peter Carmichael, who passed away last summer. I am honored to be included among the speakers. I look forward to honoring my friend. www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-in...
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 PM
The CivWar Institute has announced the schedule for the 2025 conference, which will honor the life and legacy of its former director Peter Carmichael, who passed away last summer. I am honored to be included among the speakers. I look forward to honoring my friend. www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-in...
Lieutenant Colonel Michael B. Stafford of Co. F, 86th New York Infantry Regiment in uniform (c. 1861-1864)
#graphicarts #printmaking #photography
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2016652211/
#graphicarts #printmaking #photography
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2016652211/
October 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Lieutenant Colonel Michael B. Stafford of Co. F, 86th New York Infantry Regiment in uniform (c. 1861-1864)
#graphicarts #printmaking #photography
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2016652211/
#graphicarts #printmaking #photography
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2016652211/
And here’s me, tapped out on AmRev bullshit and just wanting some CivWar moral crusading, phooey
December 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
And here’s me, tapped out on AmRev bullshit and just wanting some CivWar moral crusading, phooey
Two unidentified Union soldiers in zouave uniforms with fifes in their hands and regulation drum at their feet ; soldier on the left holds a drumstick tucked below his… (c. 1861-1865)
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2023630616/
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2023630616/
October 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Two unidentified Union soldiers in zouave uniforms with fifes in their hands and regulation drum at their feet ; soldier on the left holds a drumstick tucked below his… (c. 1861-1865)
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2023630616/
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2023630616/
Hello folks, welcome to Bluesky!
To all of you who have chosen to follow me, thank you.
My historical interests are:
- 19/20C military
- DOD digital networks/information warfare
- Naval
- combat analysis/models, sims & games
- U.S. CivWar era politics & strategy
Be excellent to each other!
To all of you who have chosen to follow me, thank you.
My historical interests are:
- 19/20C military
- DOD digital networks/information warfare
- Naval
- combat analysis/models, sims & games
- U.S. CivWar era politics & strategy
Be excellent to each other!
November 10, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Hello folks, welcome to Bluesky!
To all of you who have chosen to follow me, thank you.
My historical interests are:
- 19/20C military
- DOD digital networks/information warfare
- Naval
- combat analysis/models, sims & games
- U.S. CivWar era politics & strategy
Be excellent to each other!
To all of you who have chosen to follow me, thank you.
My historical interests are:
- 19/20C military
- DOD digital networks/information warfare
- Naval
- combat analysis/models, sims & games
- U.S. CivWar era politics & strategy
Be excellent to each other!
Wow! Congress's irrelevance starts @ Bleeding Kansas (1857), thru CivWar, w/ a peak at Congressional Reconstruction (1867). Congressional dysfunction in Panic of 1893 makes presidency singular focus of interest ever since. Prez peaks at Spanish-Cuban-Amer War (1902) & FDR in Great Depression (1933)
Remember this beautiful corpus, containing 20M public domain newspapers scans from the Library of Congress (~1800-1963)?
We created a Ngram Viewer-like app to plot word frequencies over time in the corpus. Look how "president" diverges from "congress"
➡️ shiny.ens-paris-saclay.fr/app/gallicag...
We created a Ngram Viewer-like app to plot word frequencies over time in the corpus. Look how "president" diverges from "congress"
➡️ shiny.ens-paris-saclay.fr/app/gallicag...
November 16, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Wow! Congress's irrelevance starts @ Bleeding Kansas (1857), thru CivWar, w/ a peak at Congressional Reconstruction (1867). Congressional dysfunction in Panic of 1893 makes presidency singular focus of interest ever since. Prez peaks at Spanish-Cuban-Amer War (1902) & FDR in Great Depression (1933)
Off to Madrid on 18Feb to participate in the 2025 Jarama March, to celebrate the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in defending Madrid in the early days of the Spanish CivWar. Concerned I might encounter pro-Franco protesters. Now I’m worried I will be seen as an adversary by the people I want to support.
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Off to Madrid on 18Feb to participate in the 2025 Jarama March, to celebrate the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in defending Madrid in the early days of the Spanish CivWar. Concerned I might encounter pro-Franco protesters. Now I’m worried I will be seen as an adversary by the people I want to support.
I got ask today about my first ever book review, 2008 on H-CivWar. First Semester as a Ph.D. too. When did your first review come out? Did you publish on HNet?
October 17, 2023 at 6:53 PM
I got ask today about my first ever book review, 2008 on H-CivWar. First Semester as a Ph.D. too. When did your first review come out? Did you publish on HNet?
Civil War envelope showing an eagle carrying an American flag in its claw and a serpent in its beak with motto "The early bird catches the worm" below (c. 1861-1865)
By: Trimble, John S.
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010648443/
By: Trimble, John S.
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010648443/
October 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Civil War envelope showing an eagle carrying an American flag in its claw and a serpent in its beak with motto "The early bird catches the worm" below (c. 1861-1865)
By: Trimble, John S.
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010648443/
By: Trimble, John S.
#CivilWar #portrait #archives
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2010648443/
Read American history, especially Civil War, when blood was shed here. Also the progressive era, and New Deal, for the realization that smart people can do good things quickly. Howard Zinn for an overview, Eric Foner for civwar, reconstruction. We’ve faced so much so far. Not hopeless.
April 19, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Read American history, especially Civil War, when blood was shed here. Also the progressive era, and New Deal, for the realization that smart people can do good things quickly. Howard Zinn for an overview, Eric Foner for civwar, reconstruction. We’ve faced so much so far. Not hopeless.
a geographical trap poverty =poor education=ignorance=religious zealosity =sexual ignorance =VD abortion taboo and teenage and increased pregnancies=poor diet and bad health overeating and obesity and related health issues=bigotry associates with pre CivWar
slavery
slavery
July 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
a geographical trap poverty =poor education=ignorance=religious zealosity =sexual ignorance =VD abortion taboo and teenage and increased pregnancies=poor diet and bad health overeating and obesity and related health issues=bigotry associates with pre CivWar
slavery
slavery
my wife and i discovered that we’re ancestrally from the same part of the rhine valley. but her family has been in america since before the civwar and mine were 1880 (dad’s) and 1960 (mom) so. probably fine.
July 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
my wife and i discovered that we’re ancestrally from the same part of the rhine valley. but her family has been in america since before the civwar and mine were 1880 (dad’s) and 1960 (mom) so. probably fine.
There’s a HUGE difference between “cosplay” & living history. I definitely don’t disagree with your discomfort at the applause, but we’re not taking “Comic-Con.” Living historians portray both sides of U.S. military conflicts: RevWar, 1812, CivWar, etc., to educate the public. Just noting.
May 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
There’s a HUGE difference between “cosplay” & living history. I definitely don’t disagree with your discomfort at the applause, but we’re not taking “Comic-Con.” Living historians portray both sides of U.S. military conflicts: RevWar, 1812, CivWar, etc., to educate the public. Just noting.
Thanks to Freddie Ping for placing @semmesryan.bsky.social's EXPORING RECONSTRUCTION squarely in the growing literature on Greater Reconstruction! #CivWar #USGrant #Reconstruction
New book review:
Ping on Semmes, Ryan Patrick: _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_. University of South Carolina Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20065106
Ping on Semmes, Ryan Patrick: _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_. University of South Carolina Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20065106
Semmes, Ryan Patrick. Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty. : University of South Carolina Press, 2024. 228 pp. $44.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781643365176. Reviewed by Freddie Ping (University of Kent) Published on H-CivWar (April, 2025) Commissioned by Patrick J. Doyle (Royal Holloway, University of London)
networks.h-net.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thanks to Freddie Ping for placing @semmesryan.bsky.social's EXPORING RECONSTRUCTION squarely in the growing literature on Greater Reconstruction! #CivWar #USGrant #Reconstruction
New book review:
Neumann on Quigley, Paul: _Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War, The_. Oxford University Press, 2026. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20163546
Neumann on Quigley, Paul: _Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War, The_. Oxford University Press, 2026. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20163546
Quigley, Paul. The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War. : Oxford University Press, 2026. 256 pp. $34.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780197667262. Reviewed by Brian C. Neumann (University of Virginia) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2026) Commissioned by Patrick J. Doyle (Royal Holloway, University of London)
networks.h-net.org
September 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
New book review:
Neumann on Quigley, Paul: _Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War, The_. Oxford University Press, 2026. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20163546
Neumann on Quigley, Paul: _Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War, The_. Oxford University Press, 2026. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20163546
When CivWar part Deux pops off, I’m happy you’re on my side bro. You know incase we have to flip any tanks or shit
August 17, 2026 at 11:19 PM
When CivWar part Deux pops off, I’m happy you’re on my side bro. You know incase we have to flip any tanks or shit
The only thing we haven't tried is actually punishing insurrectionists, not the minions but the actual ringleaders, from the CivWar through today. This time has to be different.
Elon Musk belongs behind bars—along with these clowns.
When the time comes, I’m backing a president who gives zero f*cks about “looking partisan.” Someone who’ll do what’s right, appoint an AG with a spine, and restore justice—no matter what it takes or how it looks.
When the time comes, I’m backing a president who gives zero f*cks about “looking partisan.” Someone who’ll do what’s right, appoint an AG with a spine, and restore justice—no matter what it takes or how it looks.
February 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The only thing we haven't tried is actually punishing insurrectionists, not the minions but the actual ringleaders, from the CivWar through today. This time has to be different.
New book review:
Hyde on Ballantyne, David T.: _Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana_. Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120841
Hyde on Ballantyne, David T.: _Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana_. Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120841
Ballantyne, David T.. Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana. : Louisiana State University Press, 2025. 309 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780807183038. Reviewed by Samuel C. Hyde (Southeast Louisiana University) Published on H-CivWar (July, 2025) Commissioned by Patrick J. Doyle (Royal Holloway, University of London)
networks.h-net.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New book review:
Hyde on Ballantyne, David T.: _Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana_. Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120841
Hyde on Ballantyne, David T.: _Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana_. Louisiana State University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120841
New book review:
Sheehan-Dean on Smith, Adam I. P.: _Gettysburg_. Oxford University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20132662
Sheehan-Dean on Smith, Adam I. P.: _Gettysburg_. Oxford University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20132662
Smith, Adam I. P.. Gettysburg. Great Battles: Oxford University Press, 2025. 320 pp. $24.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780199671274. Reviewed by Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Louisiana State University) Published on H-CivWar (November, 2025) Commissioned by Patrick J. Doyle (Royal Holloway, University of London) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=61973
networks.h-net.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New book review:
Sheehan-Dean on Smith, Adam I. P.: _Gettysburg_. Oxford University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20132662
Sheehan-Dean on Smith, Adam I. P.: _Gettysburg_. Oxford University Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20132662
Bro there’s literally no words. We just need to get this CivWar 2 crackin, pick up where reconstruction left off and actually see it through. Everything about the U.S. is so musty now 🤦🏾♂️
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Bro there’s literally no words. We just need to get this CivWar 2 crackin, pick up where reconstruction left off and actually see it through. Everything about the U.S. is so musty now 🤦🏾♂️
New book review:
Hazard on Harrison, Carol E.; Brown, Thomas J.: _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_. Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20122805
Hazard on Harrison, Carol E.; Brown, Thomas J.: _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_. Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20122805
Harrison, Carol E.; Brown, Thomas J.. Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance. : Louisiana State University Press, 2024. 330 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780807181188. Reviewed by A. Maggie Hazard (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Published on H-CivWar (August, 2025) Commissioned by Lindsay Rae Smith Privette (Anderson University)
networks.h-net.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New book review:
Hazard on Harrison, Carol E.; Brown, Thomas J.: _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_. Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20122805
Hazard on Harrison, Carol E.; Brown, Thomas J.: _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_. Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20122805
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with unidentified woman, probably his wife (c. 1861-1865)
#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2020635514/
#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2020635514/
September 20, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with unidentified woman, probably his wife (c. 1861-1865)
#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2020635514/
#CivilWar #portrait #publicdomain
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2020635514/
New book review:
VanGorder on Jones, Jonathan S.: _Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159726
VanGorder on Jones, Jonathan S.: _Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159726
Jones, Jonathan S.. Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. xiv + 393 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469689531. Reviewed by Megan VanGorder (Illinois State University) Published on H-CivWar (August, 2026) Commissioned by Lindsay Rae Smith Privette (Anderson University)
networks.h-net.org
August 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
New book review:
VanGorder on Jones, Jonathan S.: _Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159726
VanGorder on Jones, Jonathan S.: _Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-CivWar.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159726