Robert K. Krick, Robert E. Lee, and the Anti-Lee Historians
Last night I attended the first session of UVA’s “Lee at 200″ conference which will run through the end of October. Each week a historian will address a different aspect of Lee’s life and legacy with...
View ArticlePeter Carmichael on Robert E. Lee or Why Robert K. Krick and Michael Fellman...
Peter Carmichael’s keynote address at yesterday’s Lee symposium was alone worth the drive to Lexington. His paper was titled, “‘Truth is Mighty & Will Eventually Prevail:’ Why Americans Disagree...
View ArticleReview of Robert K. Krick’s Civil War Weather in Virginia
This review is slated for publication in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. On 15 May 1864 Captain John C. Winsmith of the 1st South Carolina Infantry penned a lengthy letter home in which...
View ArticleIs Robert K. Krick a Southern Historian?
Over the past three days I’ve come across two references that place Robert K. Krick, squarely in the camp of Southern historians. The reference is meant not simply to denote field of interest but a...
View ArticleWhere Have You Gone, Benjamin Butler?
I’ve caught bits and pieces of the Museum of the Confederacy’s “Person of the Year: 1862″ symposium on CSPAN-3. It’s an entertaining event for the children of the Civil War Centennial. The historians...
View ArticleRobert K. Krick Defends Lee From Strawmen
I think it’s time for Robert K. Krick to get a new angle. How much longer do we have to be subjected to vague references of an “anti-Lee” cabal among academic historians? In 2007 I was asked to...
View ArticleDo You Trust Those Lost Causers?
I recently offered some brief thoughts about Robert K. Krick’s concerns about historians, who are supposedly weary of Confederate memoirs. While I focused my remarks on a specific claim made by Krick...
View ArticleInterpretation of Slavery at Civil War Battlefields
While browsing the Museum of the Confederacy’s website I came across this panel discussion from 2002 on the interpretation of Civil War battlefields. I attended this panel, which was held at the...
View ArticleBut For Jackson
On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville and we are already being subjected to a steady stream of interpretive flights of fancy surrounding the significance of Stonewall...
View ArticleRecently Published Civil War Books in 2002
Al Mackey has been posting old CSPAN videos of various Civil War events some of which are quite interesting. I perused the CSPAN archives and came across this session from one of Gary Gallagher’s UVA...
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