from Chris
It’s been a “boots on” week for me. That’s my version of “game on” or “being ready to rumble.” I own a pair of cowboy boots—something I earned honestly because my daughter’s been a horse owner for a decade and a half—and I get them out when it’s time to get down to business.
This week marked the start of my nineteenth year teaching writing at St. Bonaventure University in western New York. I always wear my boots …
Maxwell James Mackowski holds a copy of the new book his dad just co-edited.
If people know anything at all about the Civil War battle of Gettysburg, they usually cite it as “the turning point of the war.”
But a new essay collection co-edited by our historian-in-residence, Chris Mackowski, suggests that maybe Gettysburg wasn’t “the” turning point at all. Instead, the book argues, what if the war was actually a series of major turning points, one leading to the next, …