Here are some more fiber optic battle maps from the folks that brought you the one at Cowpens. I love these things!
Archive for September, 2009
Battle maps galore
Posted in Museums and Historic Sites on September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Electric Map 2.0
Posted in American Revolution, Civil War, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Cowpens, Electric Map, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center, Gettysburg National Military Park on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago I posted about a news item that Eric Wittenberg mentioned on his blog. To recap, the folks at Gettysburg National Military Park are thinking about reviving the Electric Map in the form of a film presentation.
Critics of the map said that it was too big and too antiquated, and I [...]
I’m ready for my close-up
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln assassination, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Surratt, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The past few days have given us a flurry of Lincoln movie news, which you can read about in a series of posts by Brian Dirck (here, here, and here). Robert Redford has a Mary Surratt film in the works, and Spielberg is still pursuing his long-awaited Lincoln project.
Coincidentally, the History Channel has been on [...]
Reincarnating the Electric Map?
Posted in Civil War, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Electric Map, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center, Gettysburg National Military Park on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eric Wittenberg draws our attention to an interesting news item from Gettysburg. They’re throwing around the idea of bringing back some version of the Electric Map in a conventional, movie-theater format.
I’m not sure what they’ve got in mind, but the news item makes an implication that has me scratching my head: “The Electric Map was [...]
Lincoln Museum collection won’t be locked away
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Indiana State Museum, Lincoln Museum on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an item from Civil War News with an update on the collection of the recently-closed Lincoln Museum in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Those of you who have followed this story know that part of the material will go to the Indiana State Museum, and the archival stuff will go to the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne.
The [...]
Macaroni a la Monticello
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of the excellent Italian cuisine I enjoyed this evening, I humbly direct your attention to this highly unexpected item from the Thomas Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress.
“[P]rovided the flour be of a good quality, & not ground extremely fine, it will always do very well.”—TJ, the Martha Stewart of the eighteenth [...]
LOL with JQA
Posted in History on the Web, tagged John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, Twitter on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
File this one under “Signs of the Times.” Somebody at the Massachusetts Historical Society noticed that John Quincy Adams wrote very brief entries in the diary he kept after his appointment as minister to Russia. Next thing you know, Adams has his own Twitter account.
They’re posting the diary entries on a daily basis, exactly two centuries after Adams [...]
Don’t fear the Dark Side
Posted in Historiography, tagged Allan Eckert, David Hackett Fischer, Edmund S. Morgan, historical writing, Historiography, John Demos, narrative history on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an interesting post over at Dimitri Rotov’s Civil War Bookshelf. Its main concern is the state of Civil War historiography, but it also raises some interesting questions about the role of narrative in historical writing.
Narrative history is one of those loaded terms. When I was in graduate school, one of my professors (who is a [...]
