Who Were the Framers?

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

Duel Book Reviews: The Dahlgren Affair

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  Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren Like A Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren These Ulric Dahlgren b...

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman

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  Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William T Sherman In turns fascinating and boring. General Sherman wrote a valuable memoir for histor...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Memorial Day Remembrance

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I never met my father. He died in WWII in the cockpit of his P-51. I don't have many pictures of him, but this one was posted to a websi...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home By Matthew Pinsker

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  Lincoln’s Sanctuary looks at Lincoln from a new vantage point. With thousands upon thousands of Lincoln books, this seems like quite a fe...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

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Killing Lincoln was better than I expected. The breathless style at the beginning was a bit off-putting, but it settled down to a clean nar...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Tips for Book Gift Giving

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 A book is always a great gift … especially if you take the time to match the recipient’s taste in fiction or nonfiction. Whether your relat...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Grok's take on Tempest at Dawn

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  Grok's Self-Portrait I wasn't a strong proponent of artificial intelligence until I asked Grok about my own work. Now, I'm a f...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army

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  The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army by Adam Rankin Johnson When I am trying to get a perspective on a historical period, ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

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  The Killer Angels A Novel of the Civil War I last read The Killer Angles four decades ago. I liked it the first time, but really grew to ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Confederates in the Attic

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Confederates in the Attic Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War   Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic is a present day (1998) memoir ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War

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  Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War: How the North Used The Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Is a Gift Card an Appropriate Gift?

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My kids called to find out what I wanted for Christmas. When I asked for a gift card from Amazon, they said that would be impersonal. I didn...