Professional Historians and the Black Confederate Myth: Part One

 Interesting piece!

http://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/professional-historians-and-the-black-confederate-myth-part-one/

http://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/1661/

Civil War in Memory

For Americans, at least, no historical event is so constantly reassessed and reinterpreted as the American Civil War.

http://chronicle.com/article/Civil-War-History-an/127926/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en

sets out a good argument against the desire to interpret the motivations of people going to war in light of the consequences of the war.  In this case, the ACW resulted in emancipation, and the idea of the Union is no longer of great interest--but this does not mean that people in 1860 saw things this way--claims John David Smith, writing about a new book by Gary Gallagher.

Now on Kindle!!!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_27?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=broomsticks+to+battlefields&sprefix=broomsticks+to+battlefields

An AHA Moment about Vickers and Freemasonry

I was talking to four Freemasons this week about both Robinett and Vickers.  They indicated that when a mason is removed from the organization every mention of them is purged for all records.  That could MEAN, in the case of Vickers that is what happened to him and why I cannot find where he was raised. BUT, then why was he buried in a Masonic cemetery?

Every question answered always generates new questions.

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New Review

Al Nofi has posted a review of Robinett on Strategy page.  You can view it here:

http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/590.asp

Georgia Military College

Well, good news here.  I am no an adjunct professor at GMC.  I will be teaching the US Military History course starting in August.

Okay, so now what?

Manuscript finished, at least the first draft.  I will make some modifications before I make it publicly available.

Dr. Harris, at Widener has indicated there is no funding for my next proposal: a study of PMC from 1945 until the end of the Corps.

Guess I can kick back and relax now.

Manuscript Complete!

Well, draft is complete and sent off to AMU.  Now I can relax a bit and work on the next draft at my own pace.  This will not be published like Robinett was.  I will make copies available to those who are interested for a nominal fee.  More on that later.

Robinett and Vickers

AS the first draft of my manuscript winds down it is becoming quite obvious that the two had far more in common that simply DMA.  It now that David Vickers shared the same psychological issues: PTSD and Narcissism.  Hard to say for sure as long distance psychiatry is difficult at best and in Vickers' case he left so little in the way of personal papers.

North & South Magazine

The current issue of North & South magazine, Vol 12, # 6, March 2011 has an article I wrote about Henry C. Robinett, "When All But Life and Honor's Lost."  Be sure to pick up a copy.