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So, when I “wore a younger man’s clothes” I was a grad student in Richmond working on a degree and as a seasonal and part-time ranger for the Richmond National Battlefield Park. For some ex...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/quick-thoughts-on-the-removal-of-stonewall-jackson-on-monument-ave/

Stay with me here, ultimately this is about the pandemic and the folks that are yelling about government tyranny and their personal freedom to not wear a mask. The concepts that our Founders had ...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/on-the-founders-republican-virtue-and-the-wearing-of-masks/

Just for fun, a couple of years ago I posted a list of my “Top Ten Spook Movies.” Ever since it went up it has been among my most viewed posts and consistently one with the longest legs (it ...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/my-top-ten-creature-features/

So today (July 21st, 2019) Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are screening the movie Glory on the big screen once again in celebration of its 30th anniversary.  It will also play again on ...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/glory-is-back-on-the-big-screen-2-days-only-glory-hallelujah/

For years, University of Alabama Associate Professor Lawrence F. Kohl (author of the brilliant and historiographically important The Politics of Individualism)  taught a popular class on the li...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/i-taught-a-class-on-lincoln-heres-what-he-taught-me/

  Back in May, I got to visit the new American Civil War Museum at the Tredegar Iron works. Like many of you, ever since it was announced the Museum of the Confederacy was joining forces and bri...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/visiting-richmonds-new-american-civil-war-museum/

So, two weeks ago I was interviewed by a reporter for the Wall Street Journal doing a story on National Park Service visitation at Civil War battlefield sites. As you may know, I was a long-time...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/on-nps-visitation-that-wall-street-journal-article/

The line of dialogue used above in my title is from Netflix’s new original film, The Highwaymen, and says much about the corrective the film gives us about the two infamous outlaws, Bonnie & Cl...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/03/30/an-historians-review-of-the-highwaymen-did-robin-hood-ever-shoot-a-gas-station-attendant-point-blank-in-the-head-for-4-and-a-tank-of-gas/

Today my mind is on the movies (as it frequently is). Did you notice that six out of the eight films nominated for Best Picture are based on history? (Roma, The Favourite, “BlacKkKlansman,” �...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/01/27/they-shall-not-grow-old-see-it-seriously-just-do-it/

First a disclaimer: While I have a PhD in US history and teach 20th century history every semester, I do not specialize in legal history, women’s rights, the career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or e...

https://historyandthenews.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/an-historians-review-of-on-the-basis-of-sex/