What I’m Reading This Week

Posted on February 20, 2008
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I know I’ve not covered an actual historical topic in a week or so, with the exception of the Diaries entry the other day, preferring to stick more to Historiographical topics as well as my lecture series.  Tomorrow I will return to an actual historical discussion, but today I want to send you out from here to take a look at some of the more interesting history blogs I’ve found lately:

World HistoryBlog.com.  I am enjoying this blog, though it’s a bit beyond my scope in many ways.  I especially enjoyed the Time Travel entry of this past week.  Miland Brown has a good site going here, even if he does jump around a bit too much for my tastes.

Blog4history.com.  Chris Wehner has an interesting approach to Military history.  From a recent article on the Last Great Battle of the Civil War: “Had Grant been able to maneuver an assault from  Chattanooga while Banks attacked at Mobile, the closing in on the South from Tennessee and Alabama might have made Sherman’s “March to the Sea” look like child’s play.”  Insightful stuff.

CW-Chronicles.com.  I like this concept.  Mike Goad offers a microcosmic view of Civil War History by providing excerpts each day from a corresponding day during the Civil War.  As I write this blog entry, for example, Mike features an excerpt from the diary of a Confederate War Clerk from February 20, 1864.  Very neat idea, indeed.

MrStoneman.blogspot.com.  Mark Stoneman always has something interesting to say, even if he doesn’t say it frequently.  Whether it is an analysis of communication between professional historians and non-professionals or whether it is a discussion on how Google has affected the study of history, you can count on Mark’s posts to be insightful.

Tomorrow, we’re going to take the wayback machine to a time and place far remote from our beloved 1860s America.  See you then!

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One Response to “What I’m Reading This Week”

  1. Mike Goad on February 20th, 2008 9:58 pm

    Thanks for the mention.

    I’ve got a little over a year to go with this till I reach the end of the war. Then I’ll have to have a plan for where to go with the blog.

    I’m planning to restart the day by day chronicling of the war — with different material — on January 1, 2011 with material from January 1, 1861, 150 years after the original material.

    I just haven’t figured out what I’m going to publish between the last material from 1865 that I’ll publish in 2009 and the new beginning in 2011.

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