Three Nights in Virginia
After months of touring to promote Man of Fire, which debuted this past March, Derek Maxfield took to the road in a tour dedicated to the promotion of his first book, Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY. The first evening’s book talk was hosted by the Roanoke Civil War…
Author Presents New Emerging Civil War Book to Veteran Living History Performers
Many years in the making, the recently published book The Civil War and Pop Culture: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War, edited by Jon Tracey and Chris Mackowski, features a series of essays by a wide range of historians reflecting on the depiction of the Civil War in the…
Talkin’ Sherman in Charlottesville
I had the honor of talking to the Charlottesville Civil War Round Table in Virginia recently as their first in-person guest in over three years (COVID, of course). The group meets in the splendid Rotunda Room at Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge. The one hour event was preceded by a lovely dinner, thanks to…
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