Tag: American Civil War

Behind the Cutting Edge: ACHS’s Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum

Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden's depiction of 1863 Gettysburg, as published in Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Ego Check: Pekka Hamalainen’s Indigenous Continent

Inconvenient Suits: Aaron Burr, John Marshall, and the Jurisprudence of Treason

Portrait of Aaron Burr by John Vanderlyn, ca. 1802

Targets of Opportunity: AppleTV+’s Manhunt

Big Strategy: Ian Morris’s Geography is Destiny

Patriots with Benefits: Eric Jay Dolin’s Rebels at Sea

Land of Exploitation: HBO’s Warrior

Good Intentions Gone Awry: The Representation of Atrocity in Historical Gaming

Barracks at the Japanese Relocation Center in Klamath County, Oregon

Remedial Case Studies: Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney, and the Slave Power Conspiracy

Dred Scott, photograph taken around the time of the Supreme Court decision