On my 39th visit to Gettysburg, my wife and I had the privilege of taking Aishwarya who is a software engineer and an aspiring poet (she goes by Ash for short). This was an emergency trip, as sh...
https://scottmanning.com/content/gettysburg-after-action-report-september-10-2017/
Herodotus knew where Leonidas made his final stand against the Persian invasion of Greece because of a lion monument erected on a hill at Thermopylae. He bragged about memorizing the names of the...
https://scottmanning.com/content/rethinking-monuments-ancient-modern/
My wife and I were fortunate to get a last-minute invite to the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington D.C. I say fortunate, because you can’t even get tickets righ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/first-impressions-of-the-national-african-american-museum-in-dc/
Welcome to the first edition of Warpath Wednesday, the day in which I recount something historical from the warpath. Today’s focus is my absolute favorite spot at Gettysburg: Sedgwick Avenue. F...
https://scottmanning.com/content/warpath-wednesday-my-favorite-spot-at-gettysburg/
Nestled between the Aquarium of the Americas, The Westin, and a parking lot, the monument to the Battle of Liberty Place is difficult to find, even with the Historical Marker Database. Last week,...
https://scottmanning.com/content/liberty-place-monument-and-blacklivesmatter/
I typically reserve these conversations for the battlefield. The toxicity of the Confederacy mixed with the Internet and long-held beliefs is a recipe that I prefer to avoid. Instead, I wait unti...
https://scottmanning.com/content/dont-forget-your-roots-yank/
Clausewitz tells us “war is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. Countless duels go to make up war.” We can go one-step further in that countless duels make up a battle, especially larger ba...
http://civilwarmonitor.com/book-shelf/wittenberg-protecting-the-flank-at-gettysburg-2013#new_tab
The following was inspired by Jamel Ostwald's question on who gets to name wars. Here are some battles with competing names from the Civil War. Using Google's Ngram Viewer, we can get an idea of...
https://scottmanning.com/content/naming-the-american-civil-war/
After several people recently lamented the lack of black people at Civil War events along with potential reasons why this is the case, Jimmy Price described an experience at the macro level ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/bring-your-black-friends-to-civil-war-events/
When friends and coworkers discover I frequently visit Civil War battlefields, they often ask me if I reenact. I do not. Never had the desire. Of course, this leads to the next question—then wh...
https://scottmanning.com/content/the-three-types-of-civil-war-buffs/