Battlefield Season Kicks Off

With the advent of May, Civil War season has kicked off around these parts!

Next week, our historian-in-residence, Chris Mackowski, will participate in a variety of Facebook LIVE events to commemorate the start of the season.

On Saturday, Chris and his Emerging Civil War colleague Dan Welch will broadcast live from the grand opening of the new American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Emerging Civil War co-sponsored a program with the museum that highlighted several Emerging Scholars in the …

Commemorating the 155th Anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville

Our historian-in-residence, Chris Mackowski, took part in an exciting two-day event to help commemorate the 155th anniversary of the battle of Chancellorsville earlier this week. Chris, along with several fellow historians from Emerging Civil War, joined Kris White and Garry Adelman from the Civil War Trust and Beth Parnicza and Pete Maugle from the National Park Service for a series of Facebook LIVE broadcasts.

From Emerging Civil War, Dan Davis, Ryan Quint, Steward Henderson, and Edward Alexander joined in. So …

Historian-in-Residence Helps Commemorate Battle Anniversary

from Chris

I had the chance this week to participate in a special commemoration of the 155th anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-13, 1862). The Civil War Trust held a series of Facebook LIVE events, co-hosted by the National Park Service and Emerging Civil War. Dan Davis and I represented ECW in the two days of events. What a fantastic treat it was to be on the field with historians Frank O’Reilly, Kris White, Garry Adleman, Don Pfanz, …